something unpleasant to be endured
a distressing experience
something difficult to accept
a vexation or annoyance that has to be accepted
something hard to come to terms with
something hard or tough to digest/take
Finding out that she was adopted was a hard pill for Hailey to take.
Getting demoted was such a bitter pill to swallow.
Losing her partner for Jade was a hard pill to swallow.
The news that the disease had returned was a bitter pill for Margot to swallow.
The engineering company didn’t take on Karl after the training program, and it was a hard pill for him to take.
It must have been a bitter pill to swallow when the bank foreclosed on the mortgage.
For the second year running, Peter was passed over for promotion. It’s a hard pill to swallow, especially when the new guy got the job.
The strict measures introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19 have been a bitter pill to swallow for our mental health.
The news came that there will be no European Championship this year. That was a hard pill to take.
It is a hard and bitter pill to swallow that my father is selling our ancestral home.
There is no origin for this idiom
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