bitter pill
Example Sentences
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These demands would be a bitter pill for Washington and its Gulf Arab allies to swallow.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Paramount would have a bitter pill to swallow if regulators actually blocked the transaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
For USC, it was an especially bitter pill to swallow, considering how well things had started.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
It was a bitter pill to swallow for a young man who had spoken to AFP before the game about wanting to be an "all-time great" and to emulate his illustrious Patriots predecessor Tom Brady.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
But even among poor whites, the collapse of slavery was a bitter pill.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
