a hard pill to swallow

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a hard pill to swallow

Something, especially a fact or piece of news, that is unpleasant or difficult but which is unavoidable or must be accepted. It was a hard pill to swallow learning that my father's fortune had been squandered. Her recent breakup with Janet was a hard pill to swallow.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
SÉAfra	-	Irish
Enes	-	Turkish, Bosnian
Godfried	KHAWT-freet	Dutch
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Keelin	KEE-lin	Irish
Emilis	-	Lithuanian