If that old car breaks down again, it is brown bread.
brown bread
idiom Slang
Cockney rhyming slang · East London
dead
The ancient computer finally stopped working, so I suppose it is brown bread now.
After the company lost its primary funding and all its major clients, it was clear the business was brown bread.
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beat a dead horse
To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.
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come back from the dead
To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.
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dead 'n' buried
Contraction of dead and buried.
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dead air
An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.
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dead and buried
Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.
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dead asleep
Sleeping in a deep sleep
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dead cat bounce
A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.
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dead center
The exact center.