to cushion a blow

to cushion a blow
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  • cushion the blow — Ⅰ. cushion the blow ► to make a bad situation less severe: »Earnings expectations are worsening, but interest rates are not expected to fall to cushion the blow. Main Entry: ↑cushion Ⅱ. soften/cushion the blow ► to make the bad effects of… …   Financial and business terms

  • cushion the blow — cushion/soften the blow to make a difficult experience less unpleasant. Free street parking is to be abolished, but residents are being offered reduced price parking permits in an attempt to cushion the blow …   New idioms dictionary

  • cushion the blow — to do something that reduces harm. The way to cushion the blow is to raise prices slowly, not all at once. Etymology: from the idea of making the force of one thing hitting another less damaging by surrounding it with something soft …   New idioms dictionary

  • cushion the blow — 1) to reduce the bad effects of something Tax cuts were brought in to cushion the blow of the price rises. 2) to reduce the effect of a fall or hit …   English dictionary

  • soften/cushion the blow — ► to make the bad effects of something seem to be not as bad as they could have been: »If things go wrong there are no mechanisms to soften the blow. Main Entry: ↑blow …   Financial and business terms

  • cushion the blow — …   Useful english dictionary

  • blow — [bləʊ ǁ bloʊ] verb blew PASTTENSE [bluː] blown PASTPART [bləʊn ǁ bloʊn] [transitive] 1. informal if you blow money on something, you spend a lot of money on it, often money that you cannot afford: • He blew his wages on a new stereo …   Financial and business terms

  • blow — blow1 W3S2 [bləu US blou] v past tense blew [blu:] past participle blown [ US bloun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(wind moving)¦ 2¦(wind moving something)¦ 3¦(air from your mouth)¦ 4¦(make a noise)¦ 5¦(violence)¦ 6¦(lose an opportunity)¦ 7¦(waste money)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • cushion — cush|ion1 S3 [ˈkuʃən] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: coissin, from Vulgar Latin coxinus, from Latin coxa hip ] 1.) a cloth bag filled with soft material that you put on a chair or the floor to make it more comfortable →↑pillow ▪ a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • cushion — In the context of project financing, the extra amount of net cash flow remaining after expected debt service. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary Portion of the assets of a guaranteed or protected fund that can be exposed to risk without jeopardising… …   Financial and business terms

  • cushion — 1 noun (C) 1 a cloth bag filled with soft material that you put on a chair to make it more comfortable compare pillow 1 (1) 2 something that stops one thing from hitting another thing: The hovercraft rides on a cushion of air. 3 something,… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English


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