lemon = something defective 廢物,沒用的東西
范例對話:
A: Have you seen Joanne's new car yet?
你看見Joanne的新車了嗎?
B: Yeah. It looks good, but she's had nothing but problems with it.
車看起來很棒,但是她開車遇到了很多麻煩。
A: That's too bad. It sounds like she got a real lemon.
那太糟糕了。聽起來她很沒用。
B: She sure did! No sooner did she drive it home from the dealer's than it proved defective and started breaking down.
確實如此,她剛將車從銷售商開回家,證明車沒問題時,車就出問題了。