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Sting Manage Reduce Severity Unpleasantness Relaxing Voice Bad

Phrase/Idiom take the sting out of something
Definition If you take the sting out of something, you manage to reduce the severity or unpleasantness of something.
Example A relaxing voice can take the sting out of bad news.

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