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
Nor will oblivion's bitter cup be soon prepared for her.
From Time Magazine Archive
But oh! the bitter cup I drank That tamed my wild career; Death struck my parents from my side And drowned my joy in tears.
From Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith by Smith, Rebekah
