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n. (alternative form of bitter pill to swallow English)
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Bitter Pill may refer to:
"Bitter Pill" is a song by Siobhan Fahey, originally released in October 2002 with the label God Made Me Hardcore. The single performed moderately, peaking at #108 on the UK Singles Chart. A heavily remixed, more rock-oriented version later appeared on Fahey's project Shakespears Sister's fourth studio album, Songs from the Red Room.
Usage examples of "bitter pill".
The realization that one's life and one's lifework has been a failure is a bitter pill to swallow.
Cleatus waggled his beard by pursing his mouth like a man tasting a bitter pill to see whether he could stomach it.
A bitter pill, made no more palatable by the Oho's of my enemies, who welcomed the insinuation that I'd got through the Grate by fraud!
Sometimes, like a bitter pill is coated with sugar, the barb is lightened with humor.
I know it's a bitter pill to swallow, but you can't change the facts.
I got the cold porridge of the East muddled up with the bitter pill of the West.
I told them, and the rest of the audience, that there was a bitter pill I knew some of them wanted to swallow.
It had to be a bitter pill for him to swallow, losing almost an entire MAIT team.