In less than a month, the Jets (4-5) have gone from a broken-down horse to a horror-movie monster that simply will not die.

A broken-down old horse bore an injured woman slumped over its neck, her thigh a bloody mass of tissue, open to the air.

The racetrack was about as fit for duty as a broken-down horse.

The Ohio effort began January, 1846 in Marietta, Ohio, and Howe intended to walk across the state, but bought a broken-down horse after 100 miles.

Similarly, in both British and early American slang, a rip was "an old, broken-down horse."

The author recounts rescuing a broken-down horse, which in turn helped rescue her.

He lost his arm in the Sierra Mills, and like a broken-down horse you turned him out on the highway to die.

This fellow rode into our village one day on a broken-down horse and started preaching in the schoolhouse.

You wouldn't want him to become a broken-down horse hanging around race tracks, would you?