苦く汁じゅう

noun

bitter liquid; bitter experience

Literally a bitter liquid; figuratively a painful or bitter experience. Most commonly encountered in the idiom 苦汁を嘗める (to have a bitter experience).

See also: 苦汁をなめる

• 彼かれは事じ業ぎょうの失しっ敗ぱいで苦く汁じゅうを嘗なめた。

  He had a bitter experience with the failure of his business.

• この薬くすりは苦く汁じゅうのような味あじがする。

  This medicine tastes like a bitter liquid.