I'm looking for a word which can fit the gap in the sentence:
"My french is a little bit ______ since I haven't used it in a while"
I came up with poor but hopefully there's a more appropriate word.
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I'm looking for a word which can fit the gap in the sentence:
"My french is a little bit ______ since I haven't used it in a while"
I came up with poor but hopefully there's a more appropriate word.
Best Answer
Make no mistake about it, by far the most idiomatic way to say that is with the word rusty:
Something that's rusty has been affected by rust. This is just like a piece of metal that has been lying around your backyard unused for a long time. And what happens to metal when it's under constant exposure to the atmosphere? It gets covered with rust. The same thing can happen to your language skills if you haven't been practicing them for a while—they might get rusty.
Examples: