bitter pill 的定义
- a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept: Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.
bitter pill 近义词
something unavoidable and unpleasant
更多bitter pill例句
- Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
- For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
- This is a time for many bitter tears and, one can only hope, a better future.
- There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.
- By halftime a crowd of what appeared to be a few hundred people had amassed in the bitter cold.
- As Felipe talked with him, he perceived even more clearly how bitter and unjust his mother had been to Alessandro.
- O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
- She suddenly sank back upon the pillow and gave up to bitter anguish, when she recalled what had followed.
- Gordon gave a bitter laugh and went on, with the same strange, serious air of explaining his plan.
- If he had only been himself I should have had nothing more to desire, but he was in one of his bitter, sarcastic moods.