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smelling salts

noun as in faintness relief

Weak matches

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Sometimes it’s Harris offering Scott smelling salts — a practice Dicker, who is naturally amped, skips.

From Los Angeles Times

Rugby's authorities have no immediate plans to follow American football's NFL in banning 'smelling salts' over concerns they may mask concussion symptoms.

From BBC

"We'd be given smelling salts, sponge on the neck, back out and play," he said.

From BBC

It wasn't quite the smelling salts and stretchers of 2024, but it was close.

From BBC

He would end up on the couch himself with Carl Jung waving a fan and some smelling salts in his face.

From BBC

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