hard pill to swallow

something that is so hard to accept.

That my own son could have done something so horrible is a hard pill to swallow.
Usage notesedit

by kinginamo October 6, 2016

Hard Pill to Swallow

1. Something hard to accept. (eg. the ps3 was a flop, and that was a hard pill to swallow for Sony.)

2. A song by Blacklite District.

Jeez, that rejection was a hard pill to swallow.

by SkeletonGuy November 22, 2018