Brewer's: Gild the Pill

(To). To do something to make a disagreeable task less offensive, as a pill is gilded to make it less offensive to the sight and taste. Children's powders are hidden in jam, and authors are “damned with faint praise.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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