out of the picture
Definition
› not important to or not involved in a situation: He used to be in the team, but he's gradually drifted out of the picture.Of little or less importance › unnecessary in a particular situation: The new systems cut humans out of the picture altogether.Of little or less importanceIrrelevant
(Definition of out of the picture from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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out of your mind/head idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- a fifth/third wheel idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no object idiom
- beside preposition
- enter into sth phrasal verb
- extraneous adjective
- immaterial adjective
- irrelevance noun
- irrelevant adjective
- make no odds idiom
- moot adjective (LEGAL CASE)
- nothing pronoun
- point noun (IDEA EXPRESSED)
- prejudice noun
- red herring noun
- unconnected adjective
- unrelated adjective
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