hard to swallow

Translations
трудно переварить
The news was hard to swallow for him.
Эти новости было трудно переварить для него.
Definitions
Difficult to accept or believe; often used to describe information or a situation that is unpleasant or challenging to come to terms with.
Words
hard

adjective
трудный
to

preposition
чтобы
swallow

verb
глотать