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sucking a lemon
vb. (present participle of suck a lemon English)
Usage examples of "sucking a lemon".
It was supposed to be a great new success, fabulously researched, designed, and promoted, and was in fact a marketing flop, a sort of sinking Titanic ol the auto industiy, which one wag said looked like an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon.
Beneath a Tammy Grimes tousle of candy-apple red hair, her face was alternately compared with that of a tuba player confronting a small child sucking a lemon, and a prize shoat for the first time encountering the butcher's blade.