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What (who) is museum piece - definition
EPISODE OF DAD'S ARMY
museum piece
¦ noun a person or object regarded as old-fashioned or useless.
museum piece
(museum pieces)
If you describe an object or building as a museum piece, you mean that it is old and unusual.
One day these are multi-million dollar war machines and the next they are museum pieces.
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piece-work
EMPLOYMENT SYSTEM WHERE THE WORKER IS PAID ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF UNITS PRODUCED
Piecework; Piece rate; Piece rates; Piecework system; Piece work system; Piece workers; Piece-rate system; Piece-work; Piece worker; Piece-worker
see piecework
Wikipedia
Museum Piece
"Museum Piece" is the second episode in the first series of the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on 7 August 1968.
Examples of use of museum piece
1. To lunch at another museum piece, the Polish Daquise restaurant next to South Kensington station.
2. The Newton is long dead, and the Apple II is a museum piece.
3. But rather than purchasing state–of–the–art weaponry Iraq had procured «museum–piece weapons,» the Independent charged.
4. But rather than purchasing state–of–the–art weaponry Iraq had procured "museum–piece weapons," the Independent charged.
5. As the kimono becomes more museum piece than couture item, what once made it quintessentially Japanese is gradually fading.