Sugarcoat
Speak as Ryan
Speak as Trisha
Trisha: I have mixed feelings about her.
Ryan: What do you mean?
Trisha: Well, on the one hand, she can be kind of mean, and she is always serious. But on the other hand, she doesn't sugarcoat anything, so I always get direct feedback from her. Her direct feedback is sometimes tough to hear, but it helps me do my job better and helps me improve.
Ryan: What do you mean by ‘sugarcoat'?
Trisha: If a person sugarcoats something, they make something bad or negative sound better than it is. It's like putting sugar on top of disgusting food to make it taste better. It is the same thing as that but with words.
Ryan: I think I get it. It is basically exaggerating the positives of something to make a person feel better.
Trisha: That's right.