Pter  +  521943 Mon, 02 Jun 08 08:00 AM Is this an American way of saying the battery is running out of power?  Would you please explain why it is "juice"? Are there other colloquial ways of saying a battery is empty? Thank you very much.    Pter Joined on Wed, Nov 28 2007 Regular Member 553

	optilang  +  521952 Mon, 02 Jun 08 08:36 AM  Can't help you with the American side of things. I've always talked about a battery going flat a flat battery = it has no charge We can say  - the battery is going flat                       the battery is gone flat.                       the battery has gone flat Sometimes you will hear -  the battery is going                                          the battery is dying                         The battery is dead - is also used when no charge is left optilang Joined on Tue, May 13 2008 Poland Senior Member 2,521 OptiNative British English Speaker Wherever I may roam, I'm still a Londoner.

	Pter  +  521967 Mon, 02 Jun 08 09:24 AM Oh yes, a flat battery.  Thanks optilang. Nowadays, with so many rechargeable batteries everywhere, in mobile phones, bluetooth headsets, notebooks, toys, etc., I myself tend to say a battery is dead only when it can no longer be recharged but must be replaced.  But perhaps it's just me.  What do you think? Pter

	JCDenton  +  521973 Mon, 02 Jun 08 09:49 AM Hi Pter, One of the American form howto say that the battery runned out is : "Battery's cashed." regards     JCDenton Joined on Tue, Jul 3 2007 Regular Member 658 Regards

	Pter  +  522019 Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:14 PM Battery's cashed? LOL. If you don't tell me, I would mistake that for a typo of "crashed" if I ever come across it! Wait a minute! Is it really a typo? Pter

	JCDenton  +  522029 Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:41 PM http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cashed Cashed: when something... -is gone/run out No it's not. I'm sorry that I answered to your question.. I'll never do it again..:-) -- I heard it in a movie, where a driver saw a woman who has a problem with her car. He tried to fix up the car engine, but he said at the end: Battery is cashed. I'll need to hit this baby up. (I'll tow your car).           JCDenton

	Grammar Geek  +  522031 Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:42 PM I'd say "juice" is just a euphamism for electricity or power. "Give it some more juice" means to apply more power. I guess I can remember hearing something about a battery running out of juice. (You know, back in the Stone Ages when I was growing up, once a battery was dead, it was dead. There was no rechargning.) I'd say "dying" is far more common. My battery's dying... let me call you back. My battery's almost dead -- I'm going to lose you in a minute. I've never heard either cashed or crashed for a battery. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	JCDenton  +  522043 Mon, 02 Jun 08 02:22 PM Grammar Geek “ I've never heard either cashed or crashed for a battery...” Hi GG,  Actually you can find it at some phorums concerned about cars. Here for example. http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?p=791469 or here http://www.chicagolandsportbikes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65622 ..Of course I'm not American...:-). So I don't know how often it is being used in your normal life, but I heard it in an american movie and as you can see it's being used at some phorums concerned cars. Even by US native speakers. But me personally, I would definitely use "battery is gone" or "battery was dead".   JCDenton Grammar