bitter pill
a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
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For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTFor the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
Is The Guardian Holding Back The New York Times’ Snowden Stories? | Lloyd Grove | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is a bitter pill to swallow for those conservatives who supported the war and bitterly fought Obamacare.
bitter pill Steven Brill, Time Why medical bills are killing us.
The Week’s Best Longreads for February 22, 2013 | David Sessions | February 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever there is a bitter pill that must be recognized and accepted by all for a restructuring to be effective.
This, indeed, to a sincere and earnest man like himself, was a bitter pill; a pill he found it hard to swallow.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value | Arthur Glyn LeonardThe rascal jumped over in the Channel, and was drowned—the shark got a bitter pill that swallowed him.
The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) | Charles James LeverThis was harder for me than any of the others, and was indeed a bitter pill.
It was a bitter pill to have to accept association pilots at last, yet captains and owners agreed that there was no other way.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)It was a bitter pill for far-sighted men like Washington, Madison, and others, who did not believe in slavery.
Hero Stories from American History | Albert F. Blaisdell
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