out of the picture
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.10 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
prep_phrase
Dead, missing, or incarcerated.
Example Sentences
- "Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture."
- ""Well, since Ross is pretty much out of the picture, you're sitting in the driver's seat.""
- "By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture, the Fed began raising rates again."
- "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”."
- "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."
- "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."