the big picture

Meaning

1. Oxford88% of films

   the situation as a whole

   Carroll, do not lose sight of the big picture here.

In the movies · 8

• I don't see the big picture. I have a little picture.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• Carroll, do not lose sight of the big picture here.Ford v Ferrari2019
• You look at the big picture, that's shit.Spielberg2017
• Bush, he see the big picture.You Don't Mess with the Zohan2008
• Need to see the big picture.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• But you are so not seeing the big picture here.The Smurfs2011
• I never really saw the big picture before...Miracle Mile1989
• You're running round here like the man in the big picture,Belfast2021

Learn it in full scenes

• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract
• Belfast2021
  • Buddy Caught in a Street Riot
  • Belfast Builds the Barricades
  • Belfast Family Argues About Religion

From the same entry

• be too big for your boots
• a big cheese
• big deal
• the big enchilada
• a big fish
• a big girl's blouse
• a big noise
• the big stick
• the Big Three, Four
• give a big hand
• have a big mouth
• me and my big mouth

More idioms

• there you go again
• as a whole
• get your own way
• go through the motions
• have it in you
• leave it at that
• on sale
• out of the ordinary
• be fair
• in the wrong
• draw the line
• that is