“Sugar the pill” nghĩa là gì?

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The managers are giving everyone an extra bonus this year, but I suspect it's a way of sugaring the pill with the massive layoffs that are scheduled.

I suspect we may come to loathe it, even although today it appears to offer the beginnings of a solution to the coronavirus crisis. To be entirely fair to the first minister, she made no attempt to sugar the pill when introducing us to TTI.

Ai Weiwei is a very direct filmmaker, he is not one to sugar the pill. It is a brutal (tàn bạo) beginning to a powerful documentary in which distrust and desperation (tuyệt vọng) turns a moderate (ôn hòa) society into a collective of civil rights activists.

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