suck a lemon

verb

Etymology

From the grimace one sometimes gets from tasting the tartness of a lemon's citric acid.

Definitions

  1. To be in a sour or negative mood.

    • I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello.
    • Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon / Everything, Everything, Everything / In its right place

The neighborhood

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