bitter cup
Example Sentences
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Knapp, who lost her home and plans to rebuild, did not underplay the years of recovery ahead, but as we spoke, she dropped a few cubes of sugar into that bitter cup of coffee.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2025
Add in rising costs for virtually everything and you have a bitter cup brewing for coffee drinkers.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021
“People feel that I’m inside their homes, sitting at their kitchen table stirring a bitter cup of coffee.”
From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2021
The Middle Colonies have never tasted the bitter cup; they have never smarted, and are therefore a little cooler ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Alfonso, ye all know, died in the Holy Land—ye would interrupt me—ye would say he came not fairly to his end—it is most true—why else this bitter cup which Manfred must drink to the dregs?
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William
