Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. A clunker is a very old and poorly

maintained piece of machinery, especially a car. By extension so you know , even

though we mostly use it for cars but sometimes by extension we can use it for

other things. By extension it could also be used for anything that is not

successful. Okay. Let's continue. The origin is believed to come from the

sounds some old machinery may make when in use. The word clunk by itself is the

sound made by one heavy object hitting something else. So you know, with a car,

especially if it's driving down the road, you might hear clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk,

clunk. So that's where the word ...this was the origin really came from that they

referred to this old car that's not maintained well. As a clunker. Okay, Let's

continue. The term seemed to appear in the late 1930s and 1940s which was

towards the end of the Depression and wartime. Money was tight and many

people probably did not have much money to maintain one's car properly. If they

could afford a car or if they could afford one at all. Okay. Let's continue.

Other words used for an old car in poor condition are jalopy. Yeah. They used

jalopy, lemon. Lemon well lemon doesn't always have to be very old. It

just means that a car that breaks down a lot. But usually that is an old car. A

beater you know, it's beating along. Rattletrap.

Yeah. It could like the car shaking around like different parts of the car

shaking a lot. It's like rattling, a rattling noise. So kind of a similar idea.

Rust bucket. Okay. Yeah. When the car is really old especially if it's in

northern part of the country, a lot of the metal on the you know,

outside surface of the car may start to rust. So sometimes they could be called a

rust bucket too. Okay , good. Anyway here are several examples. Example

number one. When he picked me up for a date. I couldn't believe he was driving a

clunker. Yeah so there's always some jokes about this. Where you know, some

girl maybe she doesn't want to get in the car if the car is too terrible

looking. All right. Number two. When are you going to bring that clunker to the

junkyard and get a new car . Yeah. Maybe some coworkers are teasing him. Or number

three. During the Obama administration, he tried to stimulate the car industry by

having a program called 'cash for clunkers' It was supposed to help, indirectly

help the environment too, I think as you know getting rid of older cars that had

poor gas mileage and buying newer cars that had better gas mileage. I don't know

how well but it was questionable how well it really worked out. But that was

the idea behind it but he kind of really brought back the word clunker again

everybody was used to the word clunker during that time. Let's continue. Okay and

here's the one use where we're not really talking about either a car or

machine. You could say that movie turned out to be a real clunker. Clunker because

remember I said here you know by extension it could be used for other

things that's not successful as well. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope

it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.