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Pter Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

battery running out of juice

0Is this an American way of saying the battery is running out of power? Would you please explain why it is "juice"?02br
00 Are there other colloquial ways of saying a battery is empty?02br
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02br 00 the battery has gone flat02br 00Sometimes you will hear - the battery is going02br 00 the battery is dying02br 00 The battery is dead - is also used when no charge is left0-

— Optilang

  • 02br 00 the battery has gone flat02br 00Sometimes you will hear - the battery is going02br 00 the battery is dying02br 00 The battery is dead - is also used when no charge is left0-
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0 Can't help you with the American side of things.02br
00I've always talked about a battery going flat02br
00a flat battery = it has no charge02br
00We can say - the battery is going flat 02br
00 the battery is gone flat.02br
00 the battery has gone flat02br
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0Oh yes, a flat battery. Thanks optilang.02br
00Nowadays, with so many rechargeable batteries everywhere, in mobile phones, bluetooth headsets, notebooks, toys, etc., I myself tend to say a battery is dead only when it can no longer be recharged but must be replaced. But perhaps it's just me. What do you think?0-
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0Hi Pter,02br
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00One of the American form howto say that the battery runned out is : "01b00Battery's cashed.02b00"02br
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0Battery's cashed? LOL. If you don't tell me, I would mistake that for a typo of "crashed" if I ever come across it!02br
00Wait a minute! Is it really a typo?0-
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00Cashed: when something... -is gone/run out 02br
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00No it's not. I'm sorry that I answered to your question..05100 I'll never do it again..:-)02br
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0I'd say "juice" is just a euphamism for electricity or power.02br
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00"Give it some more juice" means to apply more power.02br
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00I guess I can remember hearing something about a battery running out of juice. (You know, back in the Stone Ages when I was growing up, once a battery was dead, it was dead. There was no rechargning.)02br
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01cite10JCDenton12cite10I'm sorry that I answered to your question.12blockquote
10Hi JC,02br
00Thank you very much indeed. Why sorry? Did I say sometime that caused misunderstanding again? I took your word for it and that "LOL" was just an expression of surprise. I was surprised by how flexible the Eng
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10 I've never heard either 11i10cashed 12i10or 11i10crashed 12i10for a battery...12blockquote
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00Actually you can find it at some phorums concerned about cars.02p

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0Hi Pter,02br
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00It sounded a little offensive...:-). Ok no problem....Again, I just said what I heard...:-)) No problem, Pter.02br
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00And thank you for the tip with ZAR application! I recovered almost 90 % of my lost photos!02br
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00I forgot to thank you.02br
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0I guess by juice it means the chemicals inside a battery.0-
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