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picture
noun
a beautiful person or thing UK, 1815
Often in the phrase “pretty as a picture”.- Look at my girls, ain’t they pretty as a picture? — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 76, 2000
▶ get the picture
to understand a situation UK, 1938- Hardly Swiftian saeva indignatio, but you get the picture almost at once. — The Guardian, 11 May 2002
▶ in the picture
aware of what is going on UK, 1900- Yes. Right. Well, keep me in the picture so that we can give you the maximum air support [.] — Jon E. Lewis (Editor), The Mammoth Book of Elite Forces, p. 194, 2002
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