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| English | Russian |
| a bitter pill to swallow | переварить непросто (= a hard pill to swallow: Losing to a younger player was a bitter pill to swallow  cambridge.org Shabe) |
| a hard pill to swallow | переварить непросто (= a bitter pill to swallow: It was a hard pill to swallow learning that my father's fortune had been squandered thefreedictionary.com Shabe) |
| look like the cat who swallowed the canary | иметь виноватый вид (Bobrovska) |
| swallow one's anger | проглотить обиду (Andrey Truhachev) |
| swallow the bitter pill | проглотить горькую пилюлю (Andrey Truhachev) |
| swallow tongue | воды в рот набрать (Yeldar Azanbayev) |
| swallow whole | щёлкать рылом (grafleonov) |
| swallow whole | щёлкать жалом (grafleonov) |
| try to swallow a basketball | пытаться сделать невозможное (Noia) |