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Meaning: (idiomatic)To goextinctorbecomeobsoleteordefunct; tofallout ofcommonpracticeoruse; to becomea thing of the past.Synonyms:go the way of the dinosaurs,go the way of the dodo bird;see alsoThesaurus:dieNow that word-processing has caught on, typewriters havegone the way of the dodo.1854November 11, “No Motu; or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas. A Narrative of Adventures at the Hawaiian, Georgian and Society Islands.By Edward T. Perkins. New York, Pudney & Russell; London, Trübner & Co.”, inThe Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number1411, London:[…]J[ohn]Francis.[...],→OCLC,page1361, column 1:The Polynesian population, for instance, is on the wane—wearing out—as the Red Man is—as the whale is,—going the way of the dodo, and so many other things.1861November 23, J. Hamilton Fyfe, “High Days in the Temple”, inThe Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number126, New York, N.Y.:Leavitt, Trow, & Co.,→OCLC,page610, column 2:It is long since that disorderly potentate [theLord of Misrule]went the way of the Dodo, andhippocrashas become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.1869September 18, “Cattle at Sea”, inThe Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume28, number725, London:[…]David Jones,[…],→OCLC,page380, column 1:[W]e confess that we should feel a lively satisfaction if we could see the sailor who set his dog at the helpless mass of ovine misery [sheep transported by ship across the English Channel] properly tied down in a conspicuous place on the deck of his ship, stripped to his waist, and then treated to such an allowance of the cat-of-nine-tails (if that animal has notgone the way of the dodoand the great auk) as would make him hate the taste of mutton for the rest of his natural life.1876July, “Art. VII.—1.Histoire de France, jusqu’à 1794.ParJules Michelet, Professeur Suppléant à la Faculté des Lettres. Paris: Hachette. 1860.[et al.]”, inThe London Quarterly Review, volume XLVI, number XCII, London:[…][T]he proprietors,[…],→OCLC,page440:We must have game laws for the Arctic seals, and a "close time" for seals as well as for gulls, or else all these animals willgo the way of the dodo.1964May 27,Mike Mansfield(witness), “Statement of Hon. Mike Mansfield, a U.S. Senator from the State of Montana”, inTreasury–Post Office Departments and Executive Office Appropriations for 1965: Hearings before the Subcommittee of theCommittee on Appropriations,United States Senate, Eighty-eighthCongress, Second Session, on H.R. 10532[…], Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page500:If the silver dollargoes the way of the dodoand the whooping crane, much of the glamour and the polish and the distinction which any entity of the Government has in celebrating its centennial will be gone.2003, Gary Marshall, “Music Technology from A to Z”, inThe Cut the Crap! Guide to Music Technology, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire: Artemis Editions,→ISBN,page110:Developed by the same people who invented MP3, mp3PRO is a new format that offers better sound quality than normal MP3s. However, at the time of writing it seems that music fans couldn't care less, and mp3PRO may wellgo the way of the dodo, the 8-track cartridge andGeorge Michael's solo career.2007,Robert A. Rosenstone, “Space for the Bird to Fly”, inKeith Jenkins, Sue Morgan,Alun Munslow, editors,Manifestos for History, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,page11:[H]istorians have turned from the past to the future, concerned with what will happen to their professional calling in the decades and centuries to come, fearful that in this age of instant communication and gratification, when an era as recent as the sixties can seem to our students as remote as the Wars of the Roses was to us in our college days, that history isgoing the way of the dodo.2009, Daniel Briere, Pat Hurley, “Treating Your Ears to Music”, inHome Theater for Dummies(For Dummies), 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, part II (Getting Video and Music into Your Theater: Source Devices),page69:For most of the world, the LP has unfortunatelygone the way of the dodo. But although LPs are far from the public eye, they've never really gone away.2009, Andrew Price, “Corporate Collateral: Globalization and the Efficiency Delusion”, inSlow-tech: Manifesto for an Overwound World, London:Atlantic Books,→ISBN,page89:If you imagine, then, that the travelling journeyman is simply an anachronism – andwent the way of the Dodo, or the Luddites – there would, admittedly, be more than a grain of truth in your reaction. But you would be only partly right.2009April 1, Greg Stott, “Flying”, inNotes from Beyond the Fringe: Collected Works of Greg Stott, Bloomington, Ind.:iUniverse,→ISBN,page24:The semi-formality of that era, along with any sense of attaining even a modicum of comfort in anything but first class [of an aeroplane], hasgone the way of the Dodo.2013, Andreas F. Clenow, “Year by Year Review”, inFollowing the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading, Chichester, West Sussex:Wiley,→ISBN,page207:If your prime brokergoes the way of the dodo, you can realistically expect that all cash on the books will be gone in the same instance and in the worst case scenario you will also be unable to liquidate your futures positions for days or perhaps weeks.
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