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(slang, euphemistic) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.

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mother's little helper

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mother's little helper

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euphemistic slang

(slang, euphemistic) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.

Japanese Meaning

（俗語）不安を軽減するために服用される精神安定剤、静穏剤（例：メプロバメート、ジアゼパム）

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She reached for her mother's little helper before answering the emails to steady her nerves.

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彼女は神経を落ち着けるために、メールに返事する前に精神安定剤を手に取った。

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(slang, euphemistic) A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam.

Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.

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mother's little helpers

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