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lost in the shuffle
Idioms and Phrases
Failing to stand out among others, as in In that huge economics class Jane's afraid she'll get lost in the shuffle . This metaphoric term alludes to mixing playing cards before dealing them. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
often gets lost in the shuffle are the financial ramifications.
Many were coordinating free paintings on their own and decided to join Homes in Memoriam after getting overwhelmed with too many requests or feeling their offers were getting lost in the shuffle of social media.
Drafted in the sixth round last spring, Vidal had been lost in the shuffle behind veteran running backs Edwards and J.K.
The human story gets lost in the shuffle.
“If I would ever spend a summer with my dad, it would be on a movie set.… I’d just get lost in the shuffle,” King said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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