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Home / about feeling hard done-by / There will be a bitter pill to pay
Posted on February 12, 2011 August 4, 2017

There will be a bitter pill to pay

A combination of “a price to pay” and “a bitter pill to swallow”.

Heard on financial news, Talk Sport, 9/02/2011

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