(a) bitter pill (for somebody) (to swallow)

(a) bitter pill (for somebody) (to swallow)
a bitter ˈpill (for sb) (to swallow) idiom
a fact or an event that is unpleasant and difficult to accept

The election defeat was a bitter pill for the party to swallow.

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