on the cutting room floor

介词短语

英文释义

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

词源

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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