trot out

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trot out (third-person singular simple present trots out, present participle trotting out, simple past and past participle trotted out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To list or recite quickly.
    • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
      It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
  2. To bring something forward in order to display or use it.
    Synonym: wheel out
    • 1895, Banjo Paterson, Johnson's Antidote:
      Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man –
      Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can;

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