Idiom
swallow a bitter pill
Meaning
To accept or endure an unpleasant situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Losing the game was a bitter pill to swallow.”
“After working so hard on the project, it was a bitter pill to swallow when the manager canceled it.”
“The veteran politician had to swallow a bitter pill when the public rejected the very policy he had championed for decades.”
Examples
simple
“Losing the game was a bitter pill to swallow.”
contextual
“After working so hard on the project, it was a bitter pill to swallow when the manager canceled it.”
complex
“The veteran politician had to swallow a bitter pill when the public rejected the very policy he had championed for decades.”
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