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Spanish
Noun
mal trago m (plural malos tragos)
- (idiomatic) blow; bitter pill to swallow
- Synonym: trago amargo
1887, Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta:Es como si se pretendiera que un hombre supiera nadar sin decidirse a entrar en el agua. No hay más remedio que pasar algún mal trago.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1887, Eugenio Cambaceres, En la sangre, chapter 13:¿No podía ser mirado, reputado más bien como una mera travesura, una superchería, una cábula de estudiante, sin seriedad, sin importancia, hasta inocente, si se quería, imaginada sólo con el fin de verse libre de un mal trago, de sacarse el lazo del cuello, una simple diablura de muchacho, en fin?...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)