Idiom
bolt bucket
Meaning
A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old car is just a rusty bolt bucket.”
“I spent all my savings on that bolt bucket, and now the engine will not even start.”
“Despite his pride in the vintage vehicle, he eventually admitted it was nothing more than a noisy, unreliable bolt bucket that belonged in a junkyard.”
Examples
simple
“My old car is just a rusty bolt bucket.”
contextual
“I spent all my savings on that bolt bucket, and now the engine will not even start.”
complex
“Despite his pride in the vintage vehicle, he eventually admitted it was nothing more than a noisy, unreliable bolt bucket that belonged in a junkyard.”
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