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hard to swallow

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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
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
See also: hard, swallow


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Newman said to himself that her daughter had been announcing her engagement and that the old lady found the morsel hard to swallow.
She tried very hard to swallow something that was not there.
 
 
 
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