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sugar the pill
Idioms and Phrases
Make something unpleasant more palatable, as in There would be no Christmas bonus this year but management sugared the pill by giving workers extra vacation time over the holidays . [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
As Roberts put it, 鈥淗e doesn鈥檛 try to sugar the pill.鈥
But there was no attempt to sugar the pill as he added that scale of the challenge could not be underestimated.
However, it won鈥檛 do to sugar the pill: this was not a memorable final.
A proven benefit would really sugar the pill for wary politicians.
He didn鈥檛 sugar the pill, telling MPs that many of the measures in the bailout bill will be recessionary.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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