museum piece



museum piece

An elderly or old-fashioned item or person, as in When are you going to sell that museum piece of a car? or Aunt Jane comes from another era-she's a real museum piece. This expression originated about 1900 for an article valuable enough for museum display but began to be used disparagingly from about 1915.
See also: piece

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HildegardeHIL-de-gahr-dəGerman (Rare)
Jawahir-Arabic
Emir-Bosnian
UgnĖ-Lithuanian
Saveli-Russian
Tommasotom-MAH-zoItalian