into the background

into the background

Into a (literal or figurative) place where someone or something is not very noticeable. I'm going to move all of our less-experienced dancers into the background for this scene. The more new people get hired, the more I get pushed into the background and ignored!
See also: background
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • background
  • in the background
  • make a dent in
  • make a dent in (something)
  • make a dent in something
  • make a dent/hole in something
  • set (someone, something, or oneself) apart (from someone or something)
  • set apart
  • set apart from
  • not be lost on (someone)
References in classic literature
His ambitious plans had retreated into the background again, and feeling that he had got out of that circle of activity in which everything was definite, he had given himself entirely to his passion, and that passion was binding him more and more closely to her.
Anna Karenina
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He closes in on the pipe, making it larger at one end and causing it to diminish in shape as it pulls us into the background. Some fear wide-angle lenses because they seem to distort the subject in this manner, but I see no problem with such distortion-most viewers simply recognize it as a perceptual effect.
Shaping perspective with a wide-angle lens
He eliminated Lot's wife, who had been increasingly pushed into the background by other artists such as Albrecht Durer [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 9 OMITTED], or even deleted as Albrecht Altdorfer had done [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 16 OMITTED].
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