- sugar/sweeten the pill
- sugar/sweeten the pill: to make an unpleasant thing less difficult to accept or deal with
Faster service may sugar the pill of higher fees.
• • •Main Entry: ↑pill
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
sugar/sweeten the pill
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sweeten the pill — sweeten/sugar the pill phrase to make something unpleasant easier to accept To sweeten the pill, the company will introduce a range of new performance related bonuses. Thesaurus: to reduce, or to remove the bad effects of somethingsynonym… … Useful english dictionary
sugar (or sweeten) the pill — make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. → pill … English new terms dictionary
sweeten the pill — ► sugar (or sweeten) the pill make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. Main Entry: ↑pill … English terms dictionary
sugar the pill — To compensate somewhat for an unpleasant prospect, unwelcome imposition, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑sugar * * * sweeten/sugar the pill phrase to make something unpleasant easier to accept To sweeten the pill, the company will introduce a range of new … Useful english dictionary
sugar the pill — ► sugar (or sweeten) the pill make an unpleasant or painful necessity more palatable. Main Entry: ↑pill … English terms dictionary
sugar the pill — British, American & Australian, American to make something bad seem less unpleasant. The government have cut income tax to sweeten the pill of a tough budget … New idioms dictionary
pill — pill1 S3 [pıl] n [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: pilula, from pila ball ] 1.) a small solid piece of medicine that you swallow whole ▪ He has to take pills to control his blood pressure. ▪ sleeping pills ▪ a bottle of vitamin pills … Dictionary of contemporary English
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pill */ — UK [pɪl] / US noun [countable] Word forms pill : singular pill plural pills a small piece of solid medicine that you swallow with water sleeping/contraceptive/vitamin pills pill for: The doctor gave me some pills for the pain. take a pill: Did… … English dictionary
pill — [[t]pɪ̱l[/t]] ♦♦♦ pills 1) N COUNT Pills are small solid round masses of medicine or vitamins that you swallow without chewing. Why do I have to take all these pills? ...sleeping pills. Syn: tablet 2) N SING: the N If a woman is on the pill, she… … English dictionary
