sweet-and-sour
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sweet-and-sour
adjective more sweet-and-sour · most sweet-and-sour · sweet and sour
- Having both sweet and sour or tart taste.
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Having both positive and negative traits, or inspiring conflicting good and bad feelings.
Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down.
Similar: bittersweet
noun sweet-and-sours · sweet and sour
- Any dish that combines sweet and sour flavours, especially There is a strong German ethnic streak in rural western Maryland and it shows in the cooking with its sweet-and-sours.
- A Chinese-style dish with sweet-and-sour sauce. First we had tossed green salad, prepared by Sister McDonald and our two new members, and then our Chinese food - chow mein, rice, egg foo young, sweet and sours, bread sticks, chinese tea with fortune cakes, prepared and served by our Brother Yardmasters for a "Chinese Food" dinner.
- Candy with a sour taste, often dusted with fizzy sherbet. No overwhelming sweetness, but a cool, refreshing after taste in your mints that lets delicate natural flavors come through. Same for tabletted sweet and sours, or gums
- A sweetened sour pickle, or a combination of sweet and sour pickles. Sweet and sours are in sellers' favor as spot stocks are light and the market in the country is rather bullish and advancing.
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