suck and blow

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suck and blow

verb sucks and blows · sucking and blowing · sucked and blew · sucked and blown

  1. Canada, UK, idiomatic To perform two incompatible actions; to hold views which are in contradiction. It is called the Liberal Democratic Party, and it beats our old cleaner, because it can suck and blow at once. They have it both ways. They are like weird hermaphroditic parrotfish, changing sex at will.

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verb perform two incompatible actions

Españolsoplar y sorber, no puede ser

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@misc{suck_and_blow_2026,
  title = {suck and blow},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/suck%20and%20blow},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}