on the cutting-room floor
idiom
: removed from a movie or television show
The scene ended up on the cutting-room floor.
—often used figurativelyA lot of good ideas are rejected and end up on the cutting-room floor.
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Lynch shot this line for his film but wisely left it on the cutting-room floor.
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Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
Naturally, a lot of delightful randomness landed on the cutting-room floor.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
The only thing missing is Page’s obsession with occult master Aleister Crowley, but maybe that was left on the cutting-room floor.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
All those who enjoy art, watch films and television, read books, and absorb information online have a stake in ensuring those activities are not undercut by a hasty transformation that, albeit unintentionally, could leave much of what enriches our lives on the cutting-room floor.
—Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
Close observers might note that the proposals are similar to, although less ambitious than, those that were left on the cutting-room floor when the Inflation Reduction Act passed.
—Time, 11 July 2023
Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
—Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
There’s some crazy electronic songs that got left on the cutting-room floor.
—Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
Max Evry, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
Naturally, a lot of delightful randomness landed on the cutting-room floor.
—Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
The only thing missing is Page’s obsession with occult master Aleister Crowley, but maybe that was left on the cutting-room floor.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
All those who enjoy art, watch films and television, read books, and absorb information online have a stake in ensuring those activities are not undercut by a hasty transformation that, albeit unintentionally, could leave much of what enriches our lives on the cutting-room floor.
—Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
Close observers might note that the proposals are similar to, although less ambitious than, those that were left on the cutting-room floor when the Inflation Reduction Act passed.
—Time, 11 July 2023
Left on the cutting-room floor Even though the council met almost 98 percent of the county’s funding requests, some initiatives did not make it onto the final reconciliation list.
—Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
Those were two of the wrong guesses — Bolts and Rangers — that wound up on the cutting-room floor in the hilarious person-on-the-street video the Tennessee Titans created for their schedule release.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2023
There’s some crazy electronic songs that got left on the cutting-room floor.
—Vulture, 21 Feb. 2022
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