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museum piece

 
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–noun
1. something suitable for keeping and exhibiting in a museum.
2. something very old-fashioned or decrepit: That car he drives is a museum piece.
Origin:
1900–05
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museum piece  
n.  

  1. One that is worth keeping or showing in a museum.

  2. One that is old-fashioned: "[The show] is a living museum piece, a piece of Americana from another era" (Patti Hartigan).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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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 erashe'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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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