cutting room
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈkʌtɪŋ ruːm/
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sala de montaje
- If you want me, I'll be in the cutting room.
- the cutting room floor
But I think in the right circumstances, it's great to have it in the cutting room.
- But I think in the right circumstances, it's great to have it in the cutting room.
- And actually, this room literally where you're sitting, this was the Gladiator cutting room.
- I mean, I'll tell you guys a story that I eventually left on the cutting room floor.
- And that scene almost made it on the cutting room floor and I can't imagine a movie like this with outing.
Examples
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I can remember seeing it put together in the cutting room for the first time.
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And I think one of the challenges that I had as a writer, and also making the movie, and then Joe and I had in the cutting room was, he doesn't typically do a Steve Martin kind of performance here.
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And Joe and I talked about it all the time in the cutting room, you know?
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When you film it like that, you do it in the cutting room.
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As a matter of fact... ...l should probably go help out in the cutting room tonight.
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All by myself, I'd stay in that cutting room.
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The cutting room is deserted except for Primo and his men.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's amusing that a scene that nearly ended up on the cutting room floor is now the basis of one of the biggest films of 2012.
Blog text (15) -
Came into the cutting room at one point and gave me some notes, which is, like, a real gift from somebody who's cut that many comedies and made that many jokes work.
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During the editing process, we spent hours in the cutting room refining the film.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally derived from 'cutting' (the act of removing or editing material) plus 'room' (a space), so a learner can infer it denotes the place where cutting/editing of film or tape takes place. Although somewhat domain-specific to filmmaking, the compound is literal and conceptually transparent and similar editing-room concepts exist across languages, making it understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Cutting room comes from old movie making, where editors would literally do the cutting in a small room, cutting out bad parts of the film and joining the good ones. That's why the phrase now means 'a place where a film or tape is edited', often by removing scenes that will not be used.