Sentence examples for a bitter slice of from inspiring English sources

Somehow I doubt the experience of receiving your first B has given you anything beyond a bitter slice of humble pie.

Some players likewise aren't thrilled about the idea of sucking on a bitter slice of cane.

offers "a rich, dark, bitter slice of contemporary life".

In another bitter slice of irony, Hughes says that the central and southern sections of the reef probably "dodged a bullet" but this was only thanks to the cooling influence of the tail-end of the same weather system that caused the devastating cyclone in Fiji.

It's sparkling apple juice with a few drops of the bitters, a slice of ginger and obviously Haig Club.

She layers pasta kerchiefs with a poached egg, blanched bitter greens and a slice of French ham, then pours over a river of browned butter, a dozen or so toasted pine nuts and a few drops of balsamic vinegar.

And when humans are feeling bitter and downtrodden, they are much less inclined to throw a bone, or a slice of spanakopita, to a mutt like me.

A slab of juicy duck meat is cut and served with plain white rice, a piquant chilli sauce meant to cut through the fattiness of the meat, and a clear broth of either duck bones or pork, flavoured with a slice of bitter melon.

Thus Tynan engineered a two-fer: getting the most important women in his life fighting over him at the bitter end, and ensuring that a valuable slice of lore was saved for posterity.

Now comes a bitter dose of reality.

Same-field peer review would become a bitter arena of scientific contentions and inter-personal conflicts.