broken toys
Children's damaged playthings
Broken toys are damaged playthings, literal or figurative.
The phrase often carries nostalgic or melancholic weight—childhood innocence lost, things once treasured now discarded.
Figuratively, broken toys describes emotionally damaged people, especially those seen as needing repair or no longer "functional" in relationships: She always falls for broken toys.
- damagedMade worse by injury
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- falling apartGradually breaking into pieces
- discardedGotten rid of
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
nostalgia · plastic · teddy bear · stuffed animals · dolls · batteries · forgotten · dusty · attic · repair · glue · wheels · buttons · spare parts · eyes · limbs · abandoned · playroom
- junktrash, garbage, refuse, rubbish, waste
- useless stuffjunk, clutter, trash, dead batteries, expired coupons
- abandonedabandoned, abandoned building, abandoned factory, abandoned hospital, abandoned mine
- found artfound art, found objects, assemblage, junk art, readymade
- dumped wastegarbage, trash, mattresses, sofas, fridges
- found materialsfound objects, driftwood, sea glass, bottle caps, shells