1. Defeat in the election was a bitter pill for him to swallow.

2. Losing the championship to a younger player was a bitter pill to swallow.

3. You're too old to be given a job. That's a bitter pill to swallow.

4. The knowledge that his friends no longer trusted him was a bitter pill to swallow.

5. We were in such a state we decided to swallow what seemed the bitter pill of Thatcherism.

6. Having to turn to global markets with cap in hand is a bitter pill but could force reforms that will eventually leave those economies in stellar shape.

7. A Bitter pill to swallow+a can of worms+a hard / tough nut+ a pint of Bitter a time of heady prosperity, Bitter partisanship, cultural frivolity and excess and

8. Bitter chocolate see thesaurus at taste 5 COLD DN COLD unpleasantly cold → Bitterly a Bitter wind the Bitter cold of the Midwestern winters 6 → to the Bitter end 7 → a Bitter pill (to swallow) — Bitterness noun [uncountable] COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 3: a Bitter argument, battle etc is one in which people oppose or criticize each other

9. The Global Innovation Race that “A Silver Tongue” plays out in is not the one featured in “The Finish Line”, but one from years prior and thus the murder of Frank Schmidt haven’t taken place yet and in fact he didn’t even live at the location at the time as the target of “A Bitter Pill” did.