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Sugar Pill Make Unpleasant News Acceptable Pleasant Time

Phrase/Idiom sugar the pill
Definition If you sugar the pill, you try to make some unpleasant news more acceptable by saying something pleasant at the same time.
Example She tried to sugar the pill by telling me that she would be home at weekends.

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