broken toy
Playroom floor casualty
A broken toy is a plaything that no longer functions as intended—missing pieces, mechanisms that don't work, parts that have snapped off.
Figuratively, it describes a person who is emotionally damaged or psychologically wounded, often from trauma or neglect: He collects broken toys—people he thinks he can fix.
The phrase suggests both sympathy and a kind of dysfunction that may resist repair.
- damagedMade worse by injury
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- falling apartGradually breaking into pieces
- discardedGotten rid of
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
plastic · doll · teddy bear · stuffed · mended · forgotten · playroom · batteries · missing · pieces · spare parts · glue · repair · nostalgia · abandoned · wheels · arm · button
- Damaged Thingscracked screen, shattered glass, shattered mirror, dented car, scratched surface
- junktrash, garbage, refuse, rubbish, waste
- abandonedabandoned, abandoned building, abandoned factory, abandoned hospital, abandoned mine
- defectsdefect, flaw, crack, cracks, defective
- disposablesplastic bag, plastic bags, paper plate, straws, tissue