gild the pill

To make something unpleasant seem appealing. I knew that my daughter was not going to be happy to go the doctor, so I gilded the pill by reminding her about all the toys that are in the office.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Chananyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Lajos	LAW-yosh	Hungarian
&Aelig;&Eth;Elric	-	Anglo-Saxon
Mireille	mee-RAY	French
Marita (1)	mah-REE-tah (German), MAH-ree-tah (Finnish)	German, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish
Delia	['di:ljə]