When I was a teen in Australia in the 90s, ‘lemon’ had two meanings other than the fruit: ‘a second hand car which was a bad purchase and keeps breaking down’, and ‘lesbian’.
In the UK it means something like ‘doofus’, which was a culture shock the first time someone called me a lemon and I had to figure out what they meant haha.
So no, with the slang meanings I can’t see it working!
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