sugarcoat the pill

Meaning: (idiomatic)To make anunpleasantevent less displeasing.Synonyms:gild the pill,sweeten the pillNear-synonyms:polish a turd,put lipstick on a pig,sweeten the pot1930, Watson White,The Paris that is Paris,page186:Tosugarcoat the pillof payment the receiver of the tax was wont to refer to it disparagingly in the diminutive, calling it “la huchette,” “the little tax on a fish stall.”2008, Robert Solomon, David Sherman, editors,The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page326:Philosophy supposes that the argument is merely flavored with such imported images tosugarcoat the pillof difficult thinking for those unused to the bitter remedy of rigorous thought.2018October 20, Zoe Wood, “Shopping malls' desperate decline comes to prime minister’s doorstep”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:One middle-aged woman does notsugar-coat the pill, rating the experience “one out of 10” because “shops keep shutting”.

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