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Examples of poisoned chalice


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He was instructed to assume charge immediately, and report back, but he clearly regarded this ostensible promotion as a poisonedchalice.
It is a poisonedchalice, make no mistake about it.
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I only hope that his ministerial career will not be affected by the poisonedchalice that he has been handed today.
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I do not believe that my statement will be seen as a poisonedchalice.
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At the outset many people saw our task as a "poisonedchalice".
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I shall not speak of a poisonedchalice, but it is pretty sour wine.
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Tuition fees are merely the lid on the poisonedchalice.
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The figures provide distressing evidence that my generation has passed down a poisonedchalice.
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In effect, we are being asked to abdicate our responsibility to the courts and to offer a poisonedchalice to the courts.
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A year or two ago he was handed the poisonedchalice.
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History shows that immunity is a poisonedchalice.
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He has been handed the poisonedchalice of housing.
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They took the poisonedchalice, drank from it.
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What a poisonedchalice this post will prove to be to the unfortunate holder!
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I share some sympathy with him, if he does not regard that too much as a poisonedchalice, over the difficulties he is in.
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I shall not seek to drink or hand on this poisonedchalice to someone else.
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We are being asked to drink from a poisonedchalice, and then carry out a foul deed in a state of some intoxication.
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I do not think that this is the poisonedchalice.
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It is something of a poisonedchalice, but he has acquitted himself well.
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He may feel that his predecessor has handed him a poisonedchalice in that respect.
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The baby's bottle becomes the poisonedchalice.
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It has been a mixed blessing because he has inherited from his predecessors a poisonedchalice, and no mirrors and no clever make-up could hide the truth.
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They may see it as a poisonedchalice, but they should be invited to take up that poisonedchalice and carry the burden along with everyone else.
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It was a poisonedchalice for it.
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This time last year, many were saying that he had embarked upon the impossible, that he had taken on a poisonedchalice and that he could never make it succeed.
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To pass these defendants a poisonedchalice is to put it to our own lips as well.
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Area committees may be a poisonedchalice—we do not know, and we are quite unsure about many matters to do with them.
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