The phrase
"to become bitter" means to develop a negative or unhappy feeling due to some disappointment, hurt or disillusionment.
Full definition
You want to find a way to get through it so that everybody's protected and ends up okay; you don't have to
become bitter enemies.
It is a way to work out a fair, legally enforceable settlement, while keeping a divorce
from becoming a bitter, endless and expensive war.
It is always good for me to hear stories of how people have chosen to walk through and in the pain
without becoming bitter.
The batter
became bitter as both sides pointed fingers at the other being the problem.
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easily become bitter if steeped too long.
If you've
become a bitter person and don't recognize yourself anymore, it is definitely time to find a career that makes you feel happy and alive.
Since the divorce
never became bitter but rather both spouses had the opportunity to negotiate and be treated fairly neither one holds resentment.
The company may not hire you if it thinks you have no motivation to work overtime or will
become bitter about the extra hours.
Others involved in the deal say the battle has
become bitter because the contract could end the near - monopoly of state insurance companies on AI's business.
However, lots of break -
ups become bitter or lengthy because couples can't agree how to split the finances.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 9, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Bride Wars (PG for crude humor, suggestive content and mild epithets) Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway co-star in this romantic comedy about a couple of lifelong best friends who
become bitter rivals after a clerical error leaves both of their weddings scheduled for the same day.
«1900» (Olive)-- Gerard Depardieu and Robert De Niro play childhood friends — a peasant and the scion of a vast country estate, respectively —
who become bitter enemies on opposite side of the political battle in Bernardo Bertolucci's sprawling epic.
In addition to fights about finances, custody arrangements may
become a bitter battleground with one parent attempting to hurt the other by preventing access to kids.
My short answer is that both Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt sought his advice and counsel weekly, even while their companies were
clearly becoming bitter strategic rivals.
The only religion which maintained strict monotheism and upheld moral standards, and which might have proved a friend and helper,
became a bitter foe.
Let us not, however,
become bitter against those who view this matter in a different light, nor treat them in a supercilious manner; rather let us be gentle towards all men.
It is obvious that such disputes touch the very core of Islam, and it is no wonder that the Muslim theologians and
jurists became the bitterest enemies of the Sufis and fought them on all fronts for centuries.
Extra-virgin olive oil can become extremely bitter and unpleasant tasting if it is over-worked (for more info you can read my article about olive
oil becoming bitter) and ruin the whole batch!
Sap flows for six to seven weeks, but when the maple trees start to bud, the
sap becomes bitter and sap collection stops for the season.
Instead of the expected consecration of Orr and all the Bruins, the playoffs had
become a bitter test of their character in adversity.
In what would
now become a bitter change, the popular hit song «Onaapo» which was carefully composed to celebrate the unprecedented achievements of President Mahama, became the preferred mockery tune for the then Christmas celebrants.
«The leaves turn yellow and drop, and the
fruit becomes bitter and misshapen, making it useless,» says Caitlyn Allen, a University of Wisconsin plant pathologist.
The 11 - day
trial became a bitter contest between religious fundamentalism and biological theory; the judge held, however, that only evidence on whether or not Scopes had taught evolution was admissible, and Scopes was convicted.
As the regular Football season is winding down, last years Super Bowl 50 appearance from my Carolina
Panthers becomes a bitter sweet memory.
A precocious teenager and a jaded
tycoon become bitter romantic rivals for the affections of a widowed teacher.
Eventually, Christopher
Robin became bitter over Pooh Bear and the inhabitants of the fictional Hundred Acre Wood, and ultimately he became estranged from his parents as an adult.
Ultimately I let that negative factor overwhelm the rest of my job and
became bitter when the company wouldn't let me go full - time work from home.