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big picture
The main film in a double feature.
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big picture
The totality of a situation.
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take a picture
To photographically capture an image.
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a picture paints a thousand words
A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!
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a picture is worth a thousand words
Alternative form of a picture paints a thousand words.
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box-office bomb
A motion picture that generates relatively low revenue at the box office, especially that which is less than the budget for the motion picture.
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don't be penny wise and pound foolish
Don't be careful when it comes to spending small amounts of money, but careless when spending much larger amounts.Don't focus on minutiae and lose sight of the big picture; don't obsess over tiny inconsequential efficiencies while glaring inefficiencies are going on elsewhere.
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fashion plate
A picture, usually an advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.
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greenwash
A false or misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal or obscure damaging activities.
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king of hearts
picture card
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odd one out
A visual puzzle where the guesser has to choose which word/picture/symbol etc. does not fit with the others.
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on the line
On a level with the eye of the spectator; said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictures.
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put oneself across
To explain one's ideas and opinions clearly so that another person can understand them and get a picture of your personality.
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see the forest for the trees
To discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the bigger picture, or the broader, more general situation. Generally used in the negative.
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spaghetti western
Nickname for a motion picture produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, depicting a tale of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West.
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