put someone in the picture

put (someone) in the picture

To keep someone informed, aware, or up to date (about something); to involve someone in something. Just make sure you put the boss in the picture about the status of the project. I want to be put in the picture when the jewels are sold. Don't cut me out of the profit!
See also: picture, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

put someone in the picture

BRITISH
COMMON If you put someone in the picture, you tell them about a situation which they need to know about. I believe that I could now produce evidence to prove my case, if you are prepared to listen. I brought you here for that reason, to put you in the picture. Has Inspector Fayard put you in the picture? Note: If you keep someone in the picture, you keep them aware of what is happening in a situation. If he promised to keep her in the picture, maybe she could tell him where she'd got her information? Compare with in the picture.
See also: picture, put, someone
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

put someone in the picture, to

To inform someone; to include someone as an active participant. To be in the picture has meant to be involved in a particular situation since about 1900. “I feel that I am in the picture, when I wear black during Lent,” wrote Clara Morris (Stage Confidences, 1902).
See also: put, someone
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • bargain
  • bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)