"Bucket of bolts" nghĩa là gì?


"Bucket of bolts" = xô bu-lông -> nghĩa là máy móc như xe ô tô, xe máy đã cũ nát, hư hỏng.

Ví dụ 
If Lucasfilm’s litigation history is any indication, even though the Millennium Falcon is just a “bucket of bolts,” it’s ostensibly a bucket of bolts worth protecting.

The molue is a bizarre bus. It’s a bucket of bolts with the loud noise of a helicopter. Indeed, the 49-sitting-99-standing-passenger bus is renowned in Lagos, Africa’s largest capital city, as a mobile coffin (quan tài).

The price you paid for that shiny new bucket of bolts may be close to doubling in the next five years or so. Did you get long-term value for your purchase, or were you fooled by the low sticker price? Time will tell.

We found a campground. It had a No Vacancy (hết chỗ trống) sign. A gate locked the entrance. But there was a place to pull off the road. We did and slept for a few hours in our bucket of bolts, an old Dodge-K.

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