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单词 from the frame
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from the frame
P2. colloquial (chiefly British and Irish English). in (also out of) the frame: under suspicion in a criminal investigation; (in extended use) under consideration for a task, occupation, etc. Also in from the frame.
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1941 V. Davis Phenomena in Crime xix. 255 In the frame, ‘wanted’.
1974 J. McVicar McVicar ii. 186 A police officer spoke to Shay..and said, ‘McVicar's in the frame, and he'll never come out of it.’
1982 Times 24 Mar. 10/6 The man who one Home Office source said last week was ‘the only name in the frame’ for the job of leading Britain's largest, most expensive and often most controversial police force.
1989 in R. Graef Talking Blues x. 328 The easy attitude towards fitting up, ‘taking a drink’ off villains to leave them out of the frame—all that has really gone.
1994 Times (Nexis) 7 Jan. He and Brian Moore are the two hookers named, Olver having dropped from the frame.
1999 Sunday People 26 Sept. 68/5 Ferguson had to shuffle his pack with Cole suspended and Keane out of the frame.
2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) iii. 86 The accused has a list of convictions as long as a day of fasting but is adamant that he is wrongly in the frame this time.
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