in someone's scheme of things
- in someone's scheme of things
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used for saying how a particular person, organization, event etc relates to the more general situation
Sam began to realize he had no place in Maria’s scheme of things.
in the grand/greater/global/overall scheme of things: It’s a major business within Canada, but not very important in the global scheme of things.
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