lemon [n]

Meaning:

• Something that is worthless or useless because it fails to work or does not work properly.

Examples:

1. Our vacuum cleaner doesn’t work well and it’s old and broken. What a lemon!
2. This phone keeps freezing—it’s such a lemon!
3. Be careful buying electronics online; you don’t want to end up with a lemon.
4. I thought he was perfect at first, but he turned out to be a total lemon.
5. The new software update is a lemon—it’s full of bugs.
6. Don’t buy this product. It’s overpriced and a total lemon.
7. I went on a date last night, but it was a lemon. No chemistry at all!
8. The washing machine broke after two weeks. I think I got sold a lemon.
9. His business idea sounded great, but it turned out to be a lemon.