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单词 wheel out
释义

wheel out

English

Verb

wheel out

  1. 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.
  2. (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.
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