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out of the picture

out of the picture prepositional phrase: not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
    • Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture.1966 October 7, “Executives: Man of the Future”, in Time
    • "Well, since Ross is pretty much out of the picture, you're sitting in the driver's seat."1986, Margaret Truman, Murder at the FBI, →ISBN, page 191
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Dead, missing, or incarcerated.
  3. (dated, idiomatic) Not suiting or attuned to the situation; incongruous.
    • 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.1906, Richard Harding Davis, “Baron James Harden Hickey”, in Real Soldiers of Fortune
    • 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.1919, John Buchan, chapter 20, in Mr. Standfast

out of the picture meaning in Kannada

out of the picture in Kannada

ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅಪ್ರಸ್ತುತವಾದ

Examples of out of the picture in a sentence

  • By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture, the Fed began raising rates again.2007 July 19, Justin Fox, “The End of Easy Money”, in Time:
  • 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.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
  • Magda devoting her life to good works seemed altogether out of the picture!1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 30, in The Lamp of Fate:

Antonyms of out of the picture

Questions about out of the picture

What does out of the picture mean?
Out of the picture means not included in the matter being planned or under consideration; not a factor or participant in the present situation.
What is out of the picture in Kannada?
Out of the picture in Kannada is ವಿಷಯಕ್ಕೆ ಅಪ್ರಸ್ತುತವಾದ. See Out of the picture meaning in Kannada.
How do you use out of the picture in a sentence?
By mid-2004, confident that deflation was out of the picture, the Fed began raising rates again.
What part of speech is out of the picture?
Out of the picture is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out of the picture in the dictionary

  1. out of the loop
  2. out of the money
  3. out of the mouths of babes
  4. out of the mouths of babes and sucklings
  5. out of the ordinary
  6. out of the picture
  7. out of the question
  8. out of the running
  9. out of the side of one's mouth
  10. out of the starting gate
  11. out of the way

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: out of the picture (page history and authors); out of the picture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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