trots out
trots out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trot out.
Meaning of trot out
Verb
trot out (third-person singular simple present trots out, present participle trotting out, simple past and past participle trotted out)
- To list or recite quickly.
- It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37
- To bring something forward in order to display or use it.
- Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man –
‘Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can;1895, Banjo Paterson, Johnson's Antidote
- Synonyms:
- wheel out
- Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man –
Questions about trots out
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