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sucking and blowing

sucking and blowing is the present participle and gerund of suck and blow.

Meaning of suck and blow

Verb

suck and blow (third-person singular simple present sucks and blows, present participle sucking and blowing, simple past sucked and blew, past participle 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.2003 September 25, Boris Johnson, “The least said about Lib Dems, the better”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 28 May 2018

Questions about sucking and blowing

What is sucking and blowing the present participle and gerund of?
Sucking and blowing is the present participle and gerund of suck and blow.

Words near sucking and blowing in the dictionary

  1. suckiness
  2. sucking
  3. sucking a big one
  4. sucking a lemon
  5. sucking all the air out of
  6. sucking and blowing
  7. sucking arse
  8. sucking ass
  9. sucking balls
  10. sucking bottle
  11. sucking bottles

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