go the way of the dodo bird
/ˈɡoʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdoʊˌdoʊ bɝd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of go the way of the dodo.
Example Sentences
- "[A]s many middle-class women entered the workforce, the live-in servant went 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."
- "Soon the typewriter would become a back-office curiosity, and the slide-rule would go the way of the Dodo bird."
- "Without sending the verification, your credit for the find goes the way of the dodo bird."
- "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 had gone the way of the dodo bird or that race was no longer a concern of these artists—in fact, quite the opposite."
- "The reason that so many were fleeing the land was simply that small family farms were going the way of the dodo bird."
- "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 to go the way of the dodo bird. Not so much the Communists."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡoʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdoʊˌdoʊ bɝd/
- British English: /ˈɡəʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdəʊdəʊ bɜːd/