The author believes the country and its political representatives are ready for such bitter medicine.

Higher taxes are not the only bitter medicine in the plan.

But since the election, he has begun to talk of the need for some bitter medicine to get the deficit under control.

So you close your eyes and take the bitter medicine.

Inflation is here, and we will all to soon be tasting its bitter medicine.

Everyone will understand that it is time to swallow the bitter medicine and get on with a cure.

Give her a taste of the bitter medicine she was trying to force on Mattie.

But the truth was too bitter medicine for them.

Such a move would at first be bitter medicine for Hungary.

It seems they were wrong and Greece needs some bitter medicine.