It looked something like a cross between a schoolboy's jalopy and a scaled-down army tank of former times. |
In the winter we planned to migrate to San Francisco, bringing all our beat furniture and broken belongings with us in a jalopy panel truck. |
Always a good rule, but you may be tempted to just load up the old jalopy, even for an overnighter. |
Well, the Navy just took its first taxi, and it's taking us where we need to go much faster than its old jalopy. |
You control the machinery in there, and you can run like a Porsche or a jalopy. |
His cause, like a rusty old jalopy, is falling apart before he turned the key. |