on the cutting-room floor
- on the cutting-room floor
on the cutting-room floor
: removed from a movie or television show
The scene ended up on the cutting-room floor. [=the scene ended up being removed]
— often used figuratively
A lot of good ideas are rejected and end up on the cutting-room floor. [=end up not being used]
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on the cutting room floor — not included. Some real ballplayers were used in the movie s baseball scenes, but they ended up on the cutting room floor. In the rush to finish this session, legislators left some very important bills on the cutting room floor … New idioms dictionary
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Cutting room floor — The term cutting room floor is used in the film industry as a figure of speech referring to unused footage not included in the finished film. In fact offcuts of film are retained in a special cutting room bin and numbered during the editing… … Wikipedia
cutting room — noun a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts) • Hypernyms: ↑room * * * noun, pl ⋯ rooms [count] : a room where movies or television shows are edited and put into their final form usually singular He worked in the… … Useful english dictionary
cutting room — noun Date: 1918 a room where film or videotape is edited often used attributively in cutting room floor to describe something removed or discarded in or as if in editing a film < the scene ended up on the cutting room floor > … New Collegiate Dictionary