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| English | Russian |
| a bitter pill to swallow | переварить непросто (= a hard pill to swallow: Losing to a younger player was a bitter pill to swallow  cambridge.org Shabe) |
| the bitter fruits | горькие плоды (Юрий Гомон) |
| drain the bitter cup | осушить горькую чашу (ART Vancouver) |
| drain the bitter cup | испить горькую чашу (ART Vancouver) |
| drink one's cup to the bitter dregs | хлебнуть через край (VLZ_58) |
| swallow the bitter pill | проглотить горькую пилюлю (Andrey Truhachev) |
| the bitter end | до точки |
| the sweet comes with the bitter | нет худа без добра (Гевар) |
| to the bitter end | до отказа (to the last extremity Val_Ships) |
| to the bitter end | до предела |
| who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet | не отведав горького, не узнаешь и сладкого (Yeldar Azanbayev) |