| This is a bitter pill to swallow after we had played so well since the new year, but we will be back. |
| With the pressure off, his 6-3 semi defeat to Adam may not have been such a bitter pill to swallow. |
| Cotterill admitted that seeing the game snatched from his side's grasp with extra time looming was a bitter pill to swallow. |
| Senator Boswell said while the agreement was a bitter pill to swallow, it was important to remember it did not leave the industry worse off. |
| Those ten Member States should be ashamed of themselves, and the country holding the presidency being one of them is a bitter pill to swallow. |
| For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow. |
