There is congestion in the streets, with clapped-out old buses, lorries and cars spewing filth into the atmosphere which we then have to breathe.
We have been dilly-dallying about the replacement of clapped-out rolling stock for just as long.
The region has virtually no motorway mileage and has a clapped-out railway system using obsolete stock.
It is, by general agreement, a totally clapped-out line which cannot generate revenue.
I believe that the compensation was far too generous, because, to put it crudely, we took over quite a few clapped-out plants.
I do not think he is being fair to those who will sail in them when he describes the vessels as clapped-out stopgaps.
On the freight side, we have a clapped-out engine system.
Someone commented that he imagined that, after a long gallop, one gave the armoured car two lumps of sugar and clapped it on the flank.
