English Idiom: A lemon
So when is a lemon, not what you think it is?
When it’s is a smartphone, of course. Or it could be a car, a TV, a microwave oven or any machine or device that does not work well.
Come on it makes perfect sense.
You see, in English, any machine or device that does not function properly or that has a lot of problems is called a lemon.
Remember that phone created by a particular Korean company that kept exploding in people’s pockets and on airplanes?
That phone was a lemon, no matter what colour it was or how it tasted.
So, there you have it anytime you have a machine or device that does not work properly; you can call it a lemon.