| 单词 | hand someone a lemon |
| 释义 | lemon1 /lemˈən/noun
To flavour with lemon ORIGIN: Fr limon (now the lime); cf Pers līmūn; cf lime2 lemonadeˈ noun A drink (still or carbonated) made with lemon juice or flavoured with lemon lemˈony adjective lemon balm same as balm (Melissa officinalis). lemon cheese or lemon curd noun A soft cooked paste of lemons, eggs, butter and sugar, used as a spread lemˈon-coloured adjective lemon drop noun A hard lemon-flavoured sweet lemˈonfish noun (NZ) Shark meat sold as food lemon geranium noun A pelargonium (Pelargonium crispum) with fragrant leaves lemon grass noun A fragrant perennial grass (Cymbopogon or Andropogon) of tropical climates, smelling like lemon and yielding an essential oil lemon law noun (US) A law protecting car-buyers against defects within a certain period after purchase lemon peel noun The skin of lemons, sometimes candied lemon squash noun A concentrated lemon drink lemon squeezer noun A small press for extracting the juice of lemons lemˈon-weed noun Sea-mat lemˈonwood noun A small New Zealand tree (Pittosporum eugenioides) lemˈon-yellˈow noun and adjective hand someone a lemon (slang) To swindle someone the answer is a lemon (informal) One is given an unsatisfactory answer or no answer at all |
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