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bit'ter pill'




a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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