'Sugarcoat' Pills and Bad News — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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Bad news can be hard to hear. It can be even harder to share with someone. So, we may tell someone bad news in a way that is easier for them to hear. In other words, we may try to sugarcoat it.
And that is our expression for today -- “sugarcoat.”
When you sugarcoat something you try to make it more pleasant or acceptable than it really is. You try to make an event or situation seem not so bad. So, you don’t share all the upsetting or otherwise bad details.
It might surprise you to learn that a United States president was criticized for using the term “sugarcoat” in an official message. I will tell you which one later in the program.
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