I'd thought a "pill" was difficult to deal with in the way that unpleasant medicine is." a bitter pill to swallow " Could a "big girl's blouse" button or zip up the back, in a most inconvenient way? Never heard the term 'til tonight.
I'm afraid I'm too impatient for playful euphemism so I tend to go quickly to direct and unflattering frontal attack. I paid my UAW dues, and I was entitled to direct (truthfully) unflattering attacks on my bosses.They were'nt clever or subtle and were usually anotomically impossible, but the bosses caught the drift that the hourlyworkers did not consider the supervisory or managerial levels quite fully human or competent to run the company