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hard to swallow

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hard to swallow

1. difficult to accept The terms of the agreement were hard to swallow, but I needed the work. My father's anger was very hard to swallow.

2. not easy to believe We found her excuse hard to swallow.

Related vocabulary: take something with a grain of salt

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hard to swallow

if something that someone says is hard to swallow, it is difficult to believe I found her story rather hard to swallow.

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hard to swallow

mod. difficult to believe. Your story is pretty hard to swallow, but I am beginning to believe it.

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