idiom
A sore point/ spot
Give someone a taste/ dose of
their own medicine
A bitter pill to swallow
Sugar the pill
Have itchy feet
meaning
A subject which someone would
prefer not to talk ab because is
make them angry or
embarrassed
Do the same bad thing to
someone that they have done
to you in order to show them
how unpleasant it is.
Unpleasant, but has to be
accepted
Do sth to make sth unpleasant
more acceptable
Want to travel or move on
Example
Falling in front of many people
at prom is a sore spot for him.
Refusing to lend him money
now would give him a taste of
his own medicine- he is never
lent you any.
Losing my job was initially a
bitter pill to swallow.
Teacher has sugared the
homework pill by offering bonus
point to it.
I can not stay in one place for
more than a year without
getting itchy feet.