Chalice and Glasses

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Chalice noun - A bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup.

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Glasses and chalice are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Glasses" with "Chalice", this nouns are similar.

Glasses noun - Optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.

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Chalice and glasses are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chalice" instead a noun "Glasses".

Common joke is either that someone poisons a chalice, then they get switched over, or someone knows he's got a poisoned drink, and tries to find a chance to dispose of it without being obvious, or pretending to swap the glasses, waiting for the enemy to really swap them and drink.

Source: Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
Poison Chalice Switcheroo: The strange Leaflet Quest has a giant who offers you two shot-glasses, telling you one contains poison and if you drink the safe one, he'll take you to fairyland.

Source: Video Game / Kingdom of Loathing
In The Princess Bride (and the film), Vizzini and the Man in Black are playing Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo; the Man in Black puts poison in both glasses, having spent years developing a tolerance to the poison being used.

Source: Exploited Immunity

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