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on the cutting room floor

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  • adjective idiomatic Not included in the finalized version of something; deliberately rejected or unintentionally overlooked.

Etymologies

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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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