The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
bitter pill (to swallow)
Something that is painful or hard to accept, as in
“Being fired from one’s first job is a bitter pill to swallow.” The term bitter pill
has been used figuratively for an unpleasant situation or fact since the sixteenth
century. Horace Walpole had the precise locution: “It was a bitter pill for the
King to swallow” (Last Journals, 1779). On the other hand, the more philosoph-
ical view that bad-tasting medicine may be beneficial has existed alongside the
cliché. “Bitter pills may have blessed effects” was recorded in James Kelly’s
Scottish Proverbs (1721), and Thomas Fuller put it as “wholesome effects” in Gno-
mologia (1732).
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