







hard to swallow
unpalatable
You've never eaten a cockroach before, and you don't have any experience telling you it's a yucky food.
The rescue plan and austerity policy may be difficult for the public to swallow.

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Open the tool →难以下咽 (nán yǐ xià yàn) means “hard to swallow, unpalatable”.
难以下咽 is pronounced nán yǐ xià yàn in Mandarin Chinese.
“hard to swallow” is 难以下咽 (nán yǐ xià yàn) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 难以下咽, each with pinyin and an English translation.