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Meaning of trot out | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To list or recite quickly.
    idiomatic, transitive
  2. To bring something forward in order to display or use it.

Examples

“It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.”
“Then he rushed to the museum, found a scientific man – ‘Trot me out a deadly serpent, just the deadliest you can;”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

troth trothed trothing trothplight trothplighted trothplighting

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