gild the pill

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Supposedly from an old pharmaceutical practice of coating bitter tasting pills with a thin layer of metal (see bitter pill).

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: kaunistella — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• French: dorer la pilule — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Hungarian: megédesíti a pirulát — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Italian: indorare la pillola — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Polish: słodzić — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Polish: kadzić — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Polish: pochlebiać — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Polish: pochlebić — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Portuguese: dourar a pílula — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Russian: подсласти́ть пилю́лю (podslastítʹ piljúlju) — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat
• Spanish: dorar la píldora — to make something unappealing look more attractive — see also sugarcoat