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sugar the pill
UK (US sweeten the pill)
Definition
to make something bad seem less unpleasant
Plans to improve public services are a way of sugaring the pill of increased taxation.
(Definition of sugar the pill from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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