suck and blow
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To perform two incompatible actions; to hold views which are in contradiction.
Canadian usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Kravetsky said the hospital's position is contradictory. "They suck and blow at the same time," Kravetsky said outside court on Tuesday. "Their position is that he's suffering no damages because he's not cognizant, and yet … they describe torture which reflects a person having been tortured intentionally or suffering severe pain, so which is it?""
- "We all know that NASCAR came out in support of South Carolina’s decision (and Alabama’s) to remove the Confederate flag from the front of its legislative building. […] But in a classic case of trying to suck and blow at the same time, Daytona Speedway (which is owned by the same people who won NASCAR) will not ban the Confederate flag from its infield at this weekend’s races."
- ""You can't suck and blow at once, as they say, we're going to have to come out of the customs union in order to be able to do free trade deals," he said."