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
Gone are the days when it was O.K. to drop a bag in hot water and let it stew to a pulpy mess, creating an overbrewed, bitter cup.
From Time Magazine Archive
How could I meet the prince, my husband, if I had not done with--everything?--if I shrank from this last drop in the bitter cup?
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
