rust

“I got so little playing time at Oregon,” he joked, “the zipper on my warm-up jacket rusted shut.”

Maybe it will not heal the soul completely in this sense, but it will not let rust go deeper in the soul.

The bottle stopper was cork, which had expanded over time and stuck to the glass, while the wire which held it in place had rusted away.

Farrow’s stage chops show no signs of rust.

I recently went to see rusting pipes laid near Finsbury Park in London during Queen Victoria’s reign over 150 years ago being replaced with bright blue plastic ones.