0 If a horse or similar animal with four legs trots, it runs at its slowest speed, using short steps in which a front leg and the back leg on the opposite side move together: --
1 When people trot somewhere, they go there in a quick or busy way: --
2 the speed or movement of a horse or similar animal when it trots: --
3 diarrhoea (= a condition in which the contents of the bowels are emptied too often): --
That takeaway gave me the trots.
to get/have the trots
4 (of a horse or other animal with four legs) to move in a way that is slightly faster than walking --
She trotted along behind them, determined to keep up.
Let me educate him about the meaning of the statistics on productivity which he trots out as evidence of recovery.
I am saying this because that is the kind of story that is trotted up and down the country.
The same arguments are trotted out by the other side in relation to all the safeguarding duties.
Are we to have this trotted out just before the election?
He was present with me at a meeting when these figures were trotted out.
Trotting out the lack of resources as a regular excuse when one knows that it is not the real reason is intellectually dishonest.
The argument which is so readily trotted out is that rateable value is an acceptable test of resources.
I do not wish to criticise his speech but there were in it quite a lot of those old cliches that come trotting out.
