machine gun starter
Your car battery is so weak it can’t start the engine, but it’s still got enough energy to make the starter click like a gun firing at a damn parade. It’s loud enough to wake the dead.
My car did that at 3 a. m. and I thought my neighbor was having a seizure.
I was trying to start my car and it sounded like a war zone. I was so scared I yelled at the car.
My brother’s car did that in the garage. He thought it was a raccoon with a gun.