sweet-and-sour

English

sweet-and-sour (comparative more sweet-and-sour, superlative most sweet-and-sour)

(cooking) Having both sweet and sour or tart taste.
Having both positive and negative traits, or inspiring conflicting good and bad feelings.
- 1982, Ward's Auto World, volume 18, numbers 1-6, page 65:
  Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down.
- 2014, Lloyd E. McIlveen, Improving on Love and Relationships:
  Humans utilize a kind of sweet and sour blend of love potion called charm.

combined sweet and sour taste

Burmese: ချိုချဉ် (my) (hkyuihkyany)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 甜酸 (tim⁴ syun¹)

Mandarin: 酸甜 (zh) (suāntián), 糖醋 (zh) (tángcù) (sweet and sour), 甜酸 (zh) (tiánsuān) (sweet and slightly sour)
Czech: sladkokyselý
Dutch: zoetzuur (nl)
Finnish: hapanimelä (fi)
Galician: agridoce (gl)
German: süßsauer (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ὀξύγλυκυς (oxúglukus)
Indonesian: asam manis, koloke, keluyuk (id)
Ottoman Turkish: مایخوش (mayhoş)
Persian: ملس (fa) (malas)
Portuguese: agridoce (pt)
Russian: ки́сло-сла́дкий (ru) (kíslo-sládkij)
Swedish: sötsur (sv)
Tagalog: agridulse (tl)
Turkish: mayhoş (tr)
Ukrainian: ки́сло-соло́дкий (kýslo-solódkyj), ви́нний (výnnyj)