Idiom
hard to swallow
Meaning
Difficult to accept; hard to acquiesce to.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That excuse is hard to swallow.”
“The news that the company was closing down was hard to swallow for all the employees.”
“While the evidence was clear, the truth about his betrayal remained hard to swallow for those who had trusted him for years.”
Examples
simple
“That excuse is hard to swallow.”
contextual
“The news that the company was closing down was hard to swallow for all the employees.”
complex
“While the evidence was clear, the truth about his betrayal remained hard to swallow for those who had trusted him for years.”
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