bromide (bromides plural )
1 n-mass Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset.
...a dose of bromide.
2 n-count A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless.
FORMAL
(=platitude)
The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.