to buy a lemon
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to purchase an item, typically a product or object, that is defective, unsatisfactory, or of little value or use
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Idiom
Informal
Exempel
After buying a lemon of a laptop, she had to spend a fortune on repairs and replacements.
The real estate agent warned them not to buy the house, suspecting it might be a lemon with hidden structural issues.
