bitter pill
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Noun edit
bitter pill (plural bitter pills)
- (figurative) Ellipsis of bitter pill to swallow.
- 2004 November 7, Simon Turnbull, “Young Scots give Williams a silver lining”, in The Independent, UK:
- By the final whistle at Murrayfield last night, the Australians were choking back the bitter pill of disappointment and defeat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bitter, pill.