English rendering Deal a bitter defeat Literal translation: “Hand someone a bitter cup”
Cause someone to experience something bitter, such as failure or defeat.
Dictionary example 1
그는 경쟁자에게 쓴잔을 안겼다.
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Writing text쓴잔을 안기다
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Shared · 2 Have a drink Drink the liquor poured into a drinking glass. 
offer a celebratory drink to a superior To pour liquor into a superior’s cup in a spirit of congratulation or wishes for long life. 
Shared · 2 drain one’s cup To drink all the liquor poured into a cup. 
2 meanings Offer a cup of liquor Pour liquor into a cup and offer it during an ancestral rite 
throw cold water on something To intrude on something going well and spoil the mood or obstruct it through needless fault-finding. 
Shared · 2 Taste bitter defeat Suffer a bitter experience such as defeat or failure 
Be tasteless Have no flavor at all 
throw cold water on things To obstruct something that is progressing smoothly so that it cannot proceed. 
Drink straight from the bottle Tilt a bottle to one's mouth like a trumpet and gulp down its contents. 
distill soju To heat fermented liquor and collect soju from a traditional distillation vessel. Browse in Hangul order.
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