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rude awakening

noun

  1. an occurrence of being made to face an unpleasant fact
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Either on Tuesday or some other point in the future, the party is in for a rude awakening over illegal immigration.

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But many will be in for a rude awakening when they wake up on Nov. 6.

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But eventually I had the rude awakening that you really couldn’t do both.

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"And I think the Republicans are probably in for a rude awakening."

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That year’s midterm elections soon gave Republicans a rude awakening to the public’s opinion of the decision, which ended half a century of federal reproductive rights.

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