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rock candy

noun as in hard sugary candy

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I’m sitting there listening — that’s the reason the intro’s so long, because I was just waiting — and finally I start singing, “You’re rock candy, baby — hard, sweet and sticky.”

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For birthdays, she baked themed cakes from scratch using Jackson’s toys to create dinosaur cakes and rock candies for Kensington’s “Frozen” cakes.

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In the 1870s, a reporter from The Sun, a New York newspaper, quoted a politician as swearing by a diet of rye whiskey cut with rock candy to stave off tuberculosis.

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In “The Bitter Truth,” Evanescence continues to own the space where frosty electronic currents collide with volcanic surges of metal catharsis and coagulate into hard rock candy.

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The tart fruit lingered on the palate like rock candy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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