cough drop

Wheeler walked away, with a good-natured laugh that made Kennedy feel better than a cough drop could have done.

When she left the room, Jerry fished a cough drop out of his pocket and gave it to Kathleen.

He's a cheerful, good-natured party, even if he is built like a 2x4 and about as broad in the shoulders as a cough drop is thick.

Now, when a cough drop is to be made the subject of a sonnet-sequence what happens?

To expect a pill and receive a cough-drop is by way of being a sort of disappointment.