trot out

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trot out

verb trots out · trotting out · trotted out

idiomatic, transitive To list or recite quickly. It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
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;
Similar: wheel out

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@misc{trot_out_2026,
  title = {trot out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trot%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}