Brewer's: Go to the Wall

(To). To be pushed on one side, laid on the shelf, passed by. Business men, and those in a hurry, leave the wall-side of a pavement to women, children, and loungers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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