wheel out
English
Verb
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see wheel, out.
- 1971, Westways (volume 63, page 50)
- 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)
- (idiomatic, derogatory) To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
- 2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You (page 10)
- We need her to cover those client dinners where I get wheeled out to smile and look pretty.
- 2015, David Bret, Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant (page 235)
- All the old clichés were wheeled out: “Living A Lie”, “Secret Torment”, “Bizarre Lifestyle”, and so on. Oh, how they wallowed in it.
- 2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You (page 10)
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