be replaced with (someone or something)
be replaced with (someone or something)
To have one's or something's role, function, status, capacity, etc., taken over by someone or something else; to have someone or something take one's or something's place. I feel like we're all going to be replaced with machines someday. The manager is being replaced with a younger, better educated person. All his anger was replaced with sadness after the initial shock wore off.
See also: replace
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be replaced by (someone or something)
- be remembered as (something)
- be remembered as/for something
- ball and chain
- a ball and chain
- at (one's) doorstep
- at doorstep
- at somebody's expense
- at someone's expense
- at (one's) expense