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Meaning: (idiomatic)Alternative form ofgo the way of the dodo.1995, Sylvia Lovegren, “The Twenties: Icebox Cookery and Other Modern Ideas”, inFashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads, Chicago, Ill.; London:University of Chicago Press, published2005,→ISBN,page 2:[A]s many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servantwent 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, 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,page119:Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule wouldgo the way of the Dodo bird.2004, Erik Sherman, “Cache On”, inGeocaching: Hide and Seek with Your GPS(A Technology in Action Press Book), Berkeley, Calif.:Apress,→DOI,→ISBN,page24:Without sending the verification, your credit for the findgoes the way of the dodo bird.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: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 hadgone the way of the dodo birdor that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite.2011, C. J. Maloney, “The Angel of Arthurdale Arrives”, inBack to the Land: Arthurdale,FDR’s New Deal, and the Costs of Economic Planning, Hoboken, N.J.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page67:The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms weregoing the way of the dodo bird.2011,Brandon Webb, Glen Doherty, “The History of Snipers”, inThe 21st-century Sniper: A Complete Practical Guide, New York, N.Y.:Skyhorse Publishing,→ISBN,page47, column 1: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 togo the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists.2011October 11,Robert Kirkman,Jay Bonansinga,The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor, New York, N.Y.:Thomas Dunne Books,→ISBN,page100:During Reconstruction, after[William Tecumseh] Shermanhad torched the place, the planners decided to let the old historic landmarksgo the way of the dodo bird; and over the next century and a half Atlanta got tarted up in steel and glass.
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