老牛破車

1. • lit. old ox pulling a shabby cart (idiom)
2. • fig. slow and inefficient

Character by character

• 老(lǎo)prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity
• 牛(niú)surname Niu
• 破(pò)broken
• 車(chē)surname Che