What does bitter pill mean?
Idiom Meaning:
something unpleasant
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Time of Scene:
Walt Disney and Richard Sherman: My world was calm, well ordered, exemplary. Then came this person, with chaos in her wake. And now my life’s ambitions go with one fell blow. It’s quite a bitter pill to take.
Walt Disney: Inspired by someone we know?
Richard Sherman: You’d have to ask Bob.
Supergirl (1984)
Time of Scene:
Selena: Don’t call me “your sweetness.” I am not sweet. I am Selena. And I am a bitter, bitter pill to swallow.
The West Wing “Enemies” (1999)
Time of Scene:
Mandy Hampton: Would you tell him that signing the bill and, thus, swallowing the bitter pill of strip mining would not foreclose a PR approach that would trumpet banking reforms while at the same time excoriating the special-interest strip-mining scam which, by the way, is what I am happy to call it. Tell him that.
C.J. Cregg: Toby, Mandy wants you to recommend to the President that we do it her way.
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