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means The edge of a road or path — and, figuratively, the forgotten margin where things get abandoned as life moves on without them.

from A straightforward compound of 'way' (road, path — from Old English 'weg') and 'side,' dating to Middle English. Its figurative punch comes largely from the biblical parable of the sower, where seed scattered 'by the wayside' gets trampled or eaten by birds before it can take root — giving 'fall by the wayside' its lasting sense of something left to perish, unattended, just off the main route of attention.