trot out

present singular third person trots out · participle present trotting out · participle past trotted out · past trotted out

1. idiomatictransitiveTo 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

2. 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