pushmi-pullyu

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 241 words | Copyright

pushmi-pullyu an imaginary creature resembling a llama or an antelope, but with a head at both ends, as invented by Hugh Lofting (1886–1947) in Doctor Dolittle (1922); in extended usage, something which is ambivalent or incoherent.

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