bitter pill
Example Sentences
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Losing Stewart for longer than that would be a bitter pill for USC to swallow at the start of a highly anticipated season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
All of this is a rather bitter pill for working women, particularly mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
He is giving you this money out of his own pocket because you are his sister and he understands that you have had to swallow a bitter pill.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
It was a bitter pill to swallow for a young man who had spoken to AFP before the game about wanting to be an "all-time great" and to emulate his illustrious Patriots predecessor Tom Brady.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
But even among poor whites, the collapse of slavery was a bitter pill.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
