horse pill | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,sometimes mildlyhumorous)Amedicinalpill which is very large in size and is thereforedifficultfor a person toswallow.2002June 26, “CNN.com - Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Vitamins and Alzheimer's”, inCNN, retrieved25 November 2013:I'm lucky enough to remember to take myhorse pill, much less drop it into a glass and wait 45 minutes.2008December 31, Becky Jungbauer, “Vitamin Supplements: Fact Or Folklore?”, inScience 2.0, retrieved25 November 2013:I do know that I feel better when I remember to take my multivitamin, iron and vitamin D supplements, and the occasional fish oilhorse pill.; (idiomatic,by extension)Afact,proposal,claim, etc. that is difficult toacceptorbelieve.1967August 26, Harry Schwartz, “Answer To Soviet Shift: China”, inSt. Petersburg Times, retrieved25 November 2013, page 8A:Even pro-Soviet Communists will find the Geneva accord a difficulthorse pillto swallow.1984August 4, “Reagan will pledge to preserve tax cut, sources say”, inThe News and Courier, retrieved25 November 2013, page 8A:Mac Carey, an aide to leading tax-cut crusaders in Congress, called the draft language in Reagan's radio speech "ahorse pill. It's very difficult to swallow."2002June 20, Michael Cooper, “New York City Budget: The Deal”, inNew York Times, retrieved25 November 2013:Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitterhorse pill.2009November 30, Guy Junker, “Junker: Panthers need to get over it”, intriblive.com, retrieved25 November 2013:They need to swallow that bighorse pillthat is the West Virginia loss, forget about it and re-focus this week.; (animal husbandry)Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seehorse,‎pill: apillforhorses, sometimes a large one.

Examples:

EN: - That looks like a horse pill to me.
ES: - Parece una pastilla para caballos.
EN: What's in the horse pill?
ES: ¿Qué es esta porquería?
ID: Apa yang ada di pil kuda?
EN: One big horse pill for his blood, that made him fart.
ES: Una para la presión, que le hacía tirarse pedos.
EN: Just take your horse pill.
ES: Ya tómate la píldora del caballo...
ID: Ambil saja pil kuda mu.
EN: Look Doc, just give me a horse pill for the pain, or something.
ES: Mire, doctor, nada más deme una buena píldora para el dolor.
EN: - You go take a horse pill and rest.
ES: Vete, tomate una pastilla y descansa.
EN: Why don't you shallow a horse pill size contrivance, it would open up new areas and dynamics.
ES: ¿Por qué no tomas una pastilla para el ingenio de tamaño industrial? Llevaría a nuevas áreas y dinámicas.
EN: I, on the other hand, needed a horse pill just to get across the ocean.
ES: Yo, por otra parte necesité un tranquilizante para caballos solo para cruzar el océano.
ID: Sebaliknya, aku butuh pil kuda hanya tuk seberangi laut.
EN: And one of them was a horse pill, and I got busted.
ES: Uno era un tranquilizante para caballos y me atraparon.
ID: Salah satunya adalah pil besar. Dan aku ketahuan.
EN: Like a big... fucking, like, a George Clinton horse pill, right?
ES: Era una enorme puta pastilla para caballos de George Clinton.
EN: Until it's in the form of a horse pill
HI: जब तक किसी गिद्ध के चंगुल में
EN: Right? Like a big... fucking, like, a George Clinton horse pill, right?
ID: Sebesar... pil kuda George Clinton.
EN: I have to take this giant horse pill, please.
ID: Aku harus minum pil raksasa ini, tolong.
EN: They're like a horse pill.
TE: వారు కుక్కలు పందులు లాంటివారు.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).