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Idiom

bucket of rust

Meaning

Synonym of rustbucket.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“My old car is just a bucket of rust.”

“I bought that cheap truck, but it turned out to be a total bucket of rust.”

“The mechanic sighed as he inspected the vehicle, noting that the engine was beyond repair and the frame was nothing more than a bucket of rust.”

Examples

simple

“My old car is just a bucket of rust.”

contextual

“I bought that cheap truck, but it turned out to be a total bucket of rust.”

complex

“The mechanic sighed as he inspected the vehicle, noting that the engine was beyond repair and the frame was nothing more than a bucket of rust.”

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