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flat tire

noun

a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.
Older Slang. a dull or socially inept person.

First recorded in 1920–25

In terms Wall Streeters can understand, it would be like your Porsche getting a flat tire.

The only cure that I know of for a boy or girl with a flat tire is more of God's uplifting strength.

Because of a flat tire, the driver stopped the car beside a little stream in which two extremely pretty girls were bathing.

A loud report like a pistol shot: a flat tire down on our car: that was all.

The lamp was loosened from the wheel and turned on the flat tire, and both boys got close to find the puncture.

He covered that half block on a flat tire and went in for help.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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