out of the picture
Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
Indeed, to the straight Grand Planners (of which North was not one), hostages were better left out of the picture entirely.
Desert Orchid is out of the picture as Norton's Coin (left) and Toby Tobias fly the last fence.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “out of the picture” mean?
No longer involved or relevant Literally: not in the image
Is “out of the picture” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.