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a bitter pill (to swallow) also bitter medicine

a situation that is unpleasant but must be accepted Losing the championship to a younger player was a bitter pill to swallow. Cuts in salaries are a dose of bitter medicine that may help the company to survive.

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That would be bitter medicine for a sector that has seen passenger traffic nearly double every two years this decade. INDIA'S JET SETTERS NOW PREFER COACH by Mehul Srivastava / BusinessWeek Gordon Brown's bitter medicine is finally working, so what's the remedy proposed by Dr Dolittle, aka Cameron? DR DOLITTLE'S DODGY LOGIC by The Mirror (London, England) One could as easily argue that defeat of the stimulus legislation - and the subsequent bitter medicine of a sharp correction in labor and financial markets - would by now have all Americans glimpsing light at the end of the recessionary tunnel. Stalled stimulus; Evidence suggests approach not working by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)			bitch off bitch up bite bite back bite head off bite into Bite me! bite nails bite off bite off more than can chew bite off more than one can chew bite on bite the big one bite the bullet bite the dust bite the hand that feeds bite the hand that feeds one Bite the ice! bite tongue Bite your tongue! biting bits and pieces bitten bitten by the same bug bitter bitter medicine bitter pill to swallow bitty blab blab around blab out black black and blue black and white black as a skillet black as one is painted black eye black mark beside name black out black sheep of the family black-and-blue blackmail into doing blah, blah, blah blame blame for blame on blanch blanch at blanch with blanche blank			bitter chocolate Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge Bitter Creek Western Railroad bitter cress Bitter cucumber bitter dock Bitter earth bitter end bitter end Bitter end (disambiguation) Bitter end (disambiguation) Bitter End Yacht Club bitter enemy bitter feelings Bitter fleabane Bitter floom bitter gourd bitter gourd bitter harangue bitter hickory Bitter Lake Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge Bitter Lakes Bitter leaf Bitter leaf bitter lemon Bitter Little Cider Apples Bitter magnet bitter medicine bitter melon bitter melon bitter melon bitter melon Bitter Milkwort Bitter Milkwort Bitter Nightshade Bitter Obstanate Zealot Order bitter orange bitter orange bitter orange bitter orange oil bitter orange tree bitter oranges bitter oranges Bitter pattern bitter pea bitter pecan bitter pignut bitter pill to swallow Bitter pit bitter principle Bitter principles Bitter Root Land Trust Bitter rot Bitter rot bitter rubberweed bitter rubberweed bitter rubberweed bitter rubberweed

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a bitter pill (redirected from bitter medicine)

a bitter pill
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