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English Idiom: Hard pill to swallow
It may be a hard pill to swallow, but we are all getting older.
I know ageing is a taboo subject, but a fact is a fact.
While I’m at it, I might as well inform you that we will have to work longer, too.
Most, if not all, Western countries have pushed back the age of retirement, and it seems that we will not stop until the age of retirement reaches 70.
Don’t go yet, I have one more hard pill to swallow.
North Korea has nuclear weapons.
That’s it.
I have no more bad news to dispense today.
That’s a little joke, by the way. Get it? Pill – dispense, no?
Before I go and to be sure you understand clearly, a hard pill to swallow is any fact or piece of news that’s hard to accept but inevitable and impossible to change.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 86.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
