Sugarcoat

To sugarcoat an idea is to make it seem more pleasant than it really is.

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To sugarcoat something is to make something more pleasant than it really is. I won’t sugarcoat this: learning English takes a lot of work. Some people might sugarcoat it by saying you can be fluent in just 5 minutes a day, or by taking an intense program for six weeks. But we don’t sugarcoat things here: we tell you the truth. It’s a lot of work!

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