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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yahya	-	Arabic, Turkish, Persian
Lieber	-	Yiddish
Varnava	-	Russian, Old Church Slavic
Fflur	-	Welsh
IngÓLfr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Nadir	-	Arabic