良药苦口 / 良藥苦口

liáng yào kǔ kǒu

Meaning

• good medicine tastes bitter (idiom) · figuratively frank criticism is hard to swallow

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Example sentences

• 良药苦口，忠言逆耳。

  良藥苦口，忠言逆耳。

  liáng yào kǔ kǒu， zhōng yán nì ěr。

  Good medicine tastes bitter, and honest advice is hard to hear.

• 良药苦口。

  良藥苦口。

  liáng yào kǔ kǒu。

  Good medicine tastes bitter.

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• Chengyu · Chengyu