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Big picture
Meaning
- Refers to the entire scope of a situation or the long term goal, rather than focusing on small, trivial details.
Professional, grounding
Used in a sentence
- Try not to worry about the typos in the draft, look at the big picture.
- We need to focus on the big picture before we start buying supplies.
- He has a hard time seeing the big picture because he loves details.
The backstory
Emerging from business management and psychology jargon in the mid-20th century. It encourages people to stop sweating the small stuff.
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