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Discover LudwigThe phrase "like a lemon" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used as a simile to describe something or someone that has a sour or unpleasant quality. Example: The team's performance was like a lemon, sour and disappointing.
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The answer looked like a lemon.
And I soon felt like a lemon standing there.
It's sweet and tart, like a lemon drop.
Sweet is more like a lemon, eucalypt and honey drink.
My friend said at the time: "I know how you feel: like a lemon.
And it tastes more like a lemon with a gentle streak.
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A 2003 still wine is "like sucking a lemon at half time," we are told.
We might like a little lemon in our water, maybe a little mandarin orange; arsenic, not so much.
But Hesser found it far too acidic -- "like sucking on a lemon".
Participants were masked as to the true purpose of the study, being told that it will be testing the palatability and liking of a lemon-flavoured SSB.
An outsize blackboard lists drink options, like a lemon-drop martini made with homemade limoncello.
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