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What is a bitter pill to swallow?

What is a bitter pill to swallow? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see bitter pill,‎ swallow.
  2. (idiomatic) Something unpleasant that must be accepted or endured.
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Not getting 5th last year is still a bitter pill to swallow, because David was handed the position on a silver platter.
For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
Those ten Member States should be ashamed of themselves, and the country holding the presidency being one of them is a bitter pill to swallow.
This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back.
Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off.
In Alberta we do not have a provincial sales tax, so harmonization to Alberta would be a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

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