cruel blow

noun

: something that is very hard to bear

Life has dealt them some cruel blows in recent years.

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Its decision is being denounced as a cruel blow to infertile couples, a fanatical equation of babies and frozen embryos, a bitter fruit of the Dobbs decision. —