go the way of the dodo bird

present singular third person goes the way of the dodo bird · participle present going the way of the dodo bird · past went the way of the dodo bird · participle past gone the way of the dodo bird

1. alternativeidiomaticAlternative form of go the way of the dodo.

   Without sending the verification, your credit for the find goes the way of the dodo bird.

   2004, Erik Sherman, “Cache On”, in Geocaching: Hide and Seek with Your GPS (A Technology in Action Press Book), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, page 24

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   [A]s many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servant went the way of the dodo bird, and the maids, servants, and hired girls who had helped with the back-breaking housework preferred jobs in offices.

   1995, Sylvia Lovegren, “The Twenties: Icebox Cookery and Other Modern Ideas”, in Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 2

   Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule would go the way of the Dodo bird.

   1995, Joachim Schurmann, “Do-it-yourself Software”, in Jessica Keyes, editor, Technology Trendlines: Technology Success Stories from Today’s Visionaries, New York, N.Y.: Van Nostrand Reinhold, Wiley, →ISBN, page 119

   She [Thelma Golden] wanted to emphasize that postmulticulturalist African American artists had both benefited from and wanted to move on from that narrow focus on racial content over formal quality. She certainly didn't mean to suggest that racism had gone the way of the dodo bird or that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite.

   2006, Jeff Chang, “Introduction: Hip-hop Arts: Our Expanding Universe”, in Jeff Chang, editor, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-hop, New York, N.Y.: BasicCivitas, →ISBN, note 1, page xv

   The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird.

   2011, C. J. Maloney, “The Angel of Arthurdale Arrives”, in Back to the Land: Arthurdale, FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 67

   In the new Atomic Age, little thought was given (again) to the relevancy of the lone shooter, and the allies continued to thumb their noses at history and allowed their sniper programs to go the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists.

   2011, Brandon Webb, Glen Doherty, “The History of Snipers”, in The 21st-century Sniper: A Complete Practical Guide, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN, page 47, column 1