suck lemons

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suck lemons (third-person singular simple present sucks lemons, present participle sucking lemons, simple past and past participle sucked lemons)

  1. Alternative form of suck a lemon
    • 2010, Nikki Carter, chapter 1, in Not a Good Look (A Fab Life Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3:
      Aunt Charlie, Dreya, and Manny moved here a year ago when they got evicted from their duplex. My aunt doesn’t keep a job for longer than three weeks, and they never have enough money for rent, so they live with us off and on. It really sucks lemons.