On-the-cutting-room-floor meaning

(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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Origin of on-the-cutting-room-floor

  • 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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On-the-cutting-room-floor Sentence Examples

  • He was convinced, in fact, that the whole film would be better off on the cutting room floor than being subjected to condemnation by an unforgiving public that was still divided on the country's controversial participation in VietNam.

  • With the cameras always rolling, there is a lot of footage that gets left on the cutting room floor when an episode of Big Brother is produced.

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