Britain is once again left with a "clapped out" version.
They were clapped out, so when the first world war came we had to make them into four big rail operators and therefore reduce the idea of competition.
Seventh, do not appoint someone who is "clapped out", that is, who lacks the necessary initiative.
Pancras described some of them as clapped out.
We were told that the locomotives on the line are so clapped out that they cannot continue beyond 1992.
They justify skinflint employers and clapped out machinery and plant, which is what has been going on.
Much of the existing stock is clapped out.
If this person is clapped out will he not have the best health service in the world at his disposal?
