1. They regarded him as a broken reed.
2. In her intemperate husband, Mrs Fang has a broken reed.
3. You lean upon a broken reed, if you trust to their compassion.
4. Don't trust him; he has been proved to be a broken reed.
5. He let me down at the last minute and turned out to be a broken reed.
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