bitter pill
Example Sentences
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“This will be a bitter pill to swallow,” SGH Macro’s Duy said.
From MarketWatch
Paramount would have a bitter pill to swallow if regulators actually blocked the transaction.
The Japanese considered the emperor to be divine, and a surrender was to admit his fallibility—a very bitter pill to swallow.
For USC, it was an especially bitter pill to swallow, considering how well things had started.
From Los Angeles Times
The sale was a bit of a bitter pill for Simmons to swallow, leaving him with just $200,000 in profit after he paid $10.8 million for the combined properties.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
