Idiom
go by the wayside
Meaning
To become obsolete or outmoded.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Many old traditions go by the wayside these days.”
“As the company updated its technology, many of the older, manual processes started to go by the wayside.”
“In the rapid transition toward a digital economy, several artisanal crafts have unfortunately gone by the wayside, leaving behind only memories of a slower era.”
Examples
simple
“Many old traditions go by the wayside these days.”
contextual
“As the company updated its technology, many of the older, manual processes started to go by the wayside.”
complex
“In the rapid transition toward a digital economy, several artisanal crafts have unfortunately gone by the wayside, leaving behind only memories of a slower era.”
Key words
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