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Chivalry Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

strength cough medicine

I'm sorry, but what is a " strength cough medicine"?

I've searched the web, and I know that it's a medication for coughing. But then why the word "strength" here? It's definitely an adjective for the medicine, not for the coughing symptoms, as the dictionary indicates.
  

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` I've never heard of 'strength cough medicine'. Where did you encounter the phrase?

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  • Where did you encounter the phrase?
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I've never heard of 'strength cough medicine'.

Where did you encounter the phrase?
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Perhaps what you heard/read was 'prescription-strength cough medicine'.

"prescription-strength" describes a medicine that is considered exceptionally 'strong' and as such can't be bought without a prescription (a piece of paper you get from a doctor).

"strength cough medicine" doesn't really make sense to me as it stands. There must have been some word in front of it.
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chivalrywhy the word "strength" here?
You must be missing something. Either the preceding word, which you did not report, explains this puzzle, or there is a mistake in the text you are reading. There are a number of words that collocate with 'strength'.

prescription strength
high strength
low strength
children's strength
adult stre
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ozzourtiPerhaps what you heard/read was 'prescription-strength cough medicine'."prescription-strength" describes a medicine that is considered exceptionally 'strong' and as such can't be bought without a prescription (a piece of paper you get from a doctor)."strength cough medicine" doesn't really make sense to me as it stands. There must have been some word in front of i
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