Talk:take a chill pill

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take a chill pill

take a chill pill = take a chill pill. All the idiomaticity would seem to be in "chill pill". DCDuring 02:30, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep It means calm down, not take an imaginary pill. I have never heard chill pill used without this phrase, so maybe 'chill pill' should be deleted. Conrad.Irwin 11:56, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to RfV/RfD chill pill. I hadn't heard these much either. "Chill pill" is apparently often the name for a real pill with the "chill" effect, as Ritalin for ADHDers or tranquilizers for almost everbody who take s them. As with any "pill", "chill pill" collocates frequently with forms of "take." It can also be found with "get", "need", "use", "drop", "pop", "give", "wash down", "is", "known as". Also "brew" and "mill". It can also be found as an interjection. "Take a pill" also seems idiomatic as interjections such as "why don't you take a pill!", "take a pill!". Of course, "take a pill" can readily blend with "chill pill". Interestingly, "take a blue pill" gets 175 g.b.c. hits, relative to 234 for "take a chill pill" DCDuring 14:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Idiomatic, as it does not infer any pill is consumed. It's also a set phrase which get far more hits than if you used terms like "eat a chill pill" or "pop a chill pill".--Dmol 14:49, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• Keep, no other combination does the phrase quite the justice. bd2412 T 11:04, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep — Paul G 12:12, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Kept per consensus. --Keene 14:22, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests for deletion - kept

Kept. See archived discussion of January 2008. 08:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

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take a chill pill

This is (deprecated template usage) take + (deprecated template usage) chill pill AFAICT. It would be a good redirect to (deprecated template usage) chill pill or, conceivably, (deprecated template usage) take a pill. (deprecated template usage) Chill pill is abundantly used with other verbs and copulas. DCDuring TALK 21:15, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure. If you read this as SoP, then 'take a chill pill' means 'take an imaginary pill that calms you down' which doesn't really support the actual meaning (although it somewhat implies it). Would we say 'take some ritalin' hoping that it would be understood as 'stop being hyper'? —CodeCat 21:27, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

The sound of (deprecated template usage) chill pill makes it a bit different from other pills used in metaphorical expressions. Also, would we want to have need a chill pill, give someone a chill pill, require a chill pill (all from COCA) let alone those with modifiers of pill?

I feel differently about (deprecated template usage) take a pill, which is a colloquial idiom IMO. The variations of that expression just seem to be alterations of the imperative Take a pill for politeness or reported speech. (deprecated template usage) Pill alone does not have the meaning by itself. DCDuring TALK 22:12, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Keep. Unless this is used to instruct someone to have a dose of an anxiolytic medication, it's idiomatic, as one can't "take" an imaginary pill. Compare take a breather, take a seat, etc. Astral (talk) 04:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Redirect to chill pill per nom: if a chill pill is an imaginary medication, then taking it clearly means to imaginarily take medicine. We don't need to include every collocation of chill pill with a verb. (Fwiw, somewhat related but not directly relevant is talk:silly pill.)​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:29, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Redirected by Wikitiki89 (talk • contribs). — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:04, 16 August 2012 (UTC)