1.   And we can speak up to tell them that bitter pills are indigestible.

2.   It was a bit of a blow, a bitter pill to swallow.

3.   Its failure to comfort is just another bitter pill.

4.   Lamb and Botham had to swallow the very bitter pill of being dropped.

5.   Losing the business was a bitter pill to swallow.

6.   The traditionalist camp has had to swallow some bitter pills.

7.   We were in such a state we Decided to swallow what seemed the bitter pill of Thatcherism.

8.   The knowledge that his friends no longer trusted him was a bitter pill to swallow.

9.   A presidential spokesman described these moves as bitter pills which would need to be swallowed to satisfy IMF conditions.

10.   And although the dismissal was a bitter pill to swallow, he has clearly lost none of his energetic, friendly, optimistic attitude.