sugarcoat the pill
verbDefinitions
To make an unpleasant event less displeasing.
- Near-synonyms: polish a turd, put lipstick on a pig, sweeten the pot
- To sugarcoat the pill of 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.”
- Philosophy supposes that the argument is merely flavored with such imported images to sugarcoat the pill of difficult thinking for those unused to the bitter remedy of rigorous thought.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA