Definition
To make an unpleasant event less displeasing.
In Context
- "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."
- "One middle-aged woman does not sugar-coat the pill, rating the experience “one out of 10” because “shops keep shutting”."
Also Said As
- gild the pill
- sweeten the pill
- polish a turd
- put lipstick on a pig
- sweeten the pot