wheel out
verb1
Derogatory, Idiomatic, Often To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
- They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:
- We need her to cover those client dinners where I get wheeled out to smile and look pretty.2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You, page 10:
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- All the old clichés were wheeled out: “Living A Lie”, “Secret Torment”, “Bizarre Lifestyle”, and so on. Oh, how they wallowed in it.2015, David Bret, Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant, page 235:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel, out.
- There were five in our party and the snow was too rough for ski-landing so the pilot wheeled out the old, fabric, two-engine biplane transport and loaded us on board.1971, Westways, volume 63, page 50:
- Related terms
- trot out