horse pill

Definitions

1. 1

   A medicinal pill which is very large in size and is therefore difficult for a person to…

   A medicinal pill which is very large in size and is therefore difficult for a person to swallow.

   • I'm lucky enough to remember to take my horse pill, much less drop it into a glass and wait 45 minutes.
   • I do know that I feel better when I remember to take my multivitamin, iron and vitamin D supplements, and the occasional fish oil horse pill.
2. 2

   A fact, proposal, claim, etc. that is difficult to accept or believe.

   • Even pro-Soviet Communists will find the Geneva accord a difficult horse pill to swallow.
   • Mac Carey, an aide to leading tax-cut crusaders in Congress, called the draft language in Reagan's radio speech "a horse pill. It's very difficult to swallow."
   • Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitter horse pill.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see horse, pill: a pill for horses, sometimes a large one.

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