on the cutting room floor

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English

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).

Pronunciation

Prepositional phrase

on the cutting room floor

  1. (idiomatic) Not included in the finalized version of something; deliberately rejected or unintentionally overlooked.
    The experimental broccoli ice cream flavor was left on the cutting room floor after market research.

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