Idiom
horse pill
Meaning
A medicinal pill which is very large in size and is therefore difficult for a person to swallow.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This horse pill is too big to swallow.”
“The doctor prescribed a new vitamin, but it is such a horse pill that I struggle to get it down.”
“Despite his best efforts to drink plenty of water, he found the massive horse pill impossible to swallow without gagging.”
Examples
simple
“This horse pill is too big to swallow.”
contextual
“The doctor prescribed a new vitamin, but it is such a horse pill that I struggle to get it down.”
complex
“Despite his best efforts to drink plenty of water, he found the massive horse pill impossible to swallow without gagging.”
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