to suck donkey balls
1
9.9
- idiom
- Offensive
:
ser una mierda
- Honestly, that idea sucks donkey balls and we should try something else.
Examples
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The new movie everyone was hyped about ended up sucking donkey balls.
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This movie sucks donkey balls!
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I tried using the cheap headphones, but they really suck donkey balls compared to my old ones.
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The last season of that show sucked donkey balls.
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The movie was so poorly made that it really suck donkey balls.
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In their last match, the team played so badly that they suck donkey balls.
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That new phone app suck donkey balls because it crashes frequently.
Synonyms
910
8.0
To be very bad or unpleasant
248
5.3
To be very bad or of poor quality
1
9.9
To be very bad or disappointing
To do something very badly and look foolish
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core verb 'suck' already has an informal meaning 'to be awful', and the literal constituents ('donkey' + 'balls') serve as a crude intensifier rather than a novel idiomatic meaning. A B1 learner who knows these words would likely infer this is a vulgar emphatic way to say something is very bad, but the exact pragmatic force and appropriateness are culturally marked and rely on slang use. Because the meaning is an obvious emphatic extension rather than an unrelated idiom, it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Suck donkey balls is a vulgar phrase that likely comes from a shocking, gross picture: the action suck combined with a donkey and its balls, which makes the idea of doing something awful very clear. So people use it to say something is 'extremely bad' or 'very disappointing'.