A bitter pill to swallow

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🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

When a situation is hard to accept, what do you say? This phrase could be for you

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC learning English.
0:11.0	com.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the English. dot com. Hello and welcome to the English we speak.
0:16.0	I'm Fay Faye and joining me today is Rob.
0:19.0	Hello everybody.
0:20.0	Faye Faye, are you okay?
0:22.0	You don't sound as cheerful as normal.
0:24.8	Oh I feel terrible today I've got a headache I feel really tired I think I'm developing flu
0:32.4	I'm going to take these parasitimal tablets.
0:35.2	Hold on Fafe. Are you sure you're getting flu? This hasn't got anything to do with that job
0:42.3	promotion that you didn't get?
0:44.4	Of course not.
0:46.4	Well, maybe a little.
0:48.4	Hmm, I know you wanted that promotion so much, but Daisy got it instead, didn't she? Exactly her and I've been
0:55.0	working here much longer than her and I have loads more experience.
1:00.0	It's so unfair.
1:02.0	I know it's a bitter pill to swallow. Thanks for the advice, but even if these
1:08.1	tablets or pills are bitter, they'll make me feel better. Now can you show me some more sympathy about my
1:15.9	promotion please? I was trying to, Faye, when I said it's a bitter pill to swallow,
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