| They cannot trust the old, clapped-out radios in their packs to work when they need them. |
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| Wednesday night's executive committee decided that the current civic vehicle, a 1988 Vauxhall Carlton, was old and clapped-out. |
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| So, if your clapped-out old banger goes phut-phut one day on the motorway, then don't hesitate to dip into your emergency fund to fix it. |
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| They see this as money wasted on people who are too old and clapped-out to be exploited for profit. |
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| He also regularly carried out repairs to an assortment of clapped-out cars which regularly littered his garden and surrounding streets. |
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| If it's a clapped-out old banger you lose your temper, kick the tyres and scream curses when it won't start. |
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| Eight-and-a-half weeks on from 26 December, here we are offering a few clapped-out boats. |
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| Ventilation is often achieved by using wheel hubs from clapped-out vehicles as protective grilles. |
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| It was left to Irwin Stelzer, one of the country's leading economists, to spell out yesterday the consequences of continuing to live with a clapped-out, underfunded system. |
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| Instead we found ourselves trundling everywhere in a clapped-out truck along roads with challenging surfaces. |
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| The problem of what to do with clapped-out electronic equipment continues to tax the EU's best minds. |
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| These same emissions zones will also catch clapped-out old bangers and poorly-maintained lorries and vans. |
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| London's underground is, by common consent, clapped-out, cramped, smelly and dirty. |
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| The ancient and clapped-out Terminal 2, from which it flies, has never looked so inviting. |
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| If you want to dance, it's usually in some clapped-out old factory with a cement floor or something that's never been sprung. |
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| Three or four clapped-out old busses grouped in the darkness, clouds of steam, people standing about waiting to be told where to go, what to do. |
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| We invariably travelled on some clapped-out smelly bus that made us nauseous with the diesel fumes. |
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| True, Britain has a clapped-out generating system. |
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| What I'm committed to try and change is the clapped-out, two-party system. |
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| Even when Forbes listed him as the richest American in 1982, he still went to the barber round the corner and ran around in a clapped-out old pick-up. |
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| I wanted to use clapped-out synthesisers and old school rhythm boxes and record the electric guitars raw without running them through hi-tech speakers. |
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| The congested and clapped-out road and rail networks cause problems not only for Poland but also for its neighbours. |
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| Part of the problem is clapped-out infrastructure. |
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| Trouble is, being bankers, they placed your hard-earned cash on a clapped-out old nag heading for the knacker's yard and not the winning post. |
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