Why Do I Feel Like a Lemon?

Lemons, like my parents, are imports from foreign lands that weren’t grown here

I’m holding a slightly stale lemon and trying to explain to a group of strangers what the English idiom ‘to feel like a lemon’ means. I grew up in England and despite having foreign parents myself, it didn’t cross my mind that this expression wouldn’t be understood. I tried to explain that it meant feeling awkward and out of place.

‘But why a lemon?’ A F…