out of the picture
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- (idiomatic) Not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
- 1966 October 7, “Executives: Man of the Future”, in Time:
- Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture.
- 1986, Margaret Truman, Murder at the FBI, →ISBN, page 191:
- "Well, since Ross is pretty much out of the picture, you're sitting in the driver's seat."
- 2007 July 19, Justin Fox, “The End of Easy Money”, in Time:
- By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture, the Fed began raising rates again.
- 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) Dead, missing, or incarcerated.
- (idiomatic, dated) Not suiting or attuned to the situation; incongruous.
- 1906, Richard Harding Davis, “Baron James Harden Hickey”, in Real Soldiers of Fortune:
- Harden-Hickey, in our day, was as incongruous a figure as was the American at the Court of King Arthur; he was as unhappily out of the picture as would be Cyrano de Bergerac on the floor of the Board of Trade.
- 1919, John Buchan, chapter 20, in Mr. Standfast:
- Only Peter was out of the picture. He was a strange, disconsolate figure, as he shifted about to ease his leg, or gazed incuriously from the window.
- 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 30, in The Lamp of Fate:
- Magda devoting her life to good works seemed altogether out of the picture!
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- “out of the picture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.