Meaning of out of the picture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
   idiomatic
2. Dead, missing, or incarcerated.
   euphemistic, idiomatic
3. Not suiting or attuned to the situation; incongruous.
   dated, idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“Magda devoting her life to good works seemed altogether out of the picture!”

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