"sugarcoat the pill" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, Watson White, The Paris that is Paris, page 186:",
          "text": "To sugarcoat the pill of payment the receiver of the tax was wont to refer to it disparagingly in the diminutive, calling it “la huchette,” “the little tax on a fish stall.”",
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          "text": "Philosophy supposes that the argument is merely flavored with such imported images to sugarcoat the pill of difficult thinking for those unused to the bitter remedy of rigorous thought.",
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          "ref": "2018 October 20, Zoe Wood, “Shopping malls' desperate decline comes to prime minister’s doorstep”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "One middle-aged woman does not sugar-coat the pill, rating the experience “one out of 10” because “shops keep shutting”.",
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        "To make an unpleasant situation more pleasant."
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        "(idiomatic) To make an unpleasant situation more pleasant."
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          "word": "bitter pill to swallow"
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          "word": "sweeten the pot"
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          "word": "gild the pill"
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