on the cutting room floor in English

Audio: En-au-on the cutting room floor.ogg

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Etymology: From the earliest film-editing process, which involved manually removing (cutting) unwanted scenes, leaving the film scraps on the floor of the room used for editing (the cutting room). Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on the cutting room floor, {{en-PP}} on the cutting room floor

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          "text": "The experimental broccoli ice cream flavor was left on the cutting room floor after market research."
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        "(idiomatic) Not included in the finalized version of something; deliberately rejected or unintentionally overlooked."
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        {
          "word": "trash heap of history"
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  "etymology_text": "From the earliest film-editing process, which involved manually removing (cutting) unwanted scenes, leaving the film scraps on the floor of the room used for editing (the cutting room).",
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        "1": "en",
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      },
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    },
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"on the cutting room floor" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase