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
“This will be a bitter pill to swallow,” SGH Macro’s Duy said.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 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
Given that Russia was at this point at the very vanguard of modernism it was a bitter pill to swallow, and understandably so.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
