wheel out

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wheel out (third-person singular simple present wheels out, present participle wheeling out, simple past and past participle wheeled out)

1. (idiomatic, often derogatory) To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
   • 2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

     They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

   • 2015, Kiki Archer, Too Late... I Love You, page 10:

     We need her to cover those client dinners where I get wheeled out to smile and look pretty.

   • 2015, David Bret, Rock Hudson: The Gentle Giant, page 235:

     All the old clichés were wheeled out: “Living A Lie”, “Secret Torment”, “Bizarre Lifestyle”, and so on. Oh, how they wallowed in it.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel,‎ out.
   • 1971, Westways, volume 63, page 50:

     There were five in our party and the snow was too rough for ski-landing so the pilot wheeled out the old, fabric, two-engine biplane transport and loaded us on board.