the picture of

1. 與……非常相像
   The small girl is the picture of her mother.

   那小女孩與她母親長得一模一樣。

2. 是……的化身（或體現）
   That boy is the picture of health.

   那男孩非常健康。

come into the picture

1. 有牽連
   We did not expect that you had come into the picture at all.

   我們當時根本沒想到你會有牽連。

get the picture

1. 了解情況
   Your wife ran away with your best friend. Now do you get the picture?

   你的老婆跟你好友私奔了。現在你知道了嗎？

go to the pictures

1. 去看電影
   They often go to the pictures.

   她們經常去看電影。

out of the picture

1. 不相干的
   In talking about this, you could hardly keep the housing problem out of the picture.

   談到這一點，就不可能不談及住房問題。

picture to oneself

1. 想像
   She pictured to herself the family sitting by the fire.

   她想像著一家人圍坐在火爐旁的情形。

put sb. in the picture

1. 把情況告訴某人
   He's been away for several weeks, and we'd better put him in the picture at once.

   他已經離開幾星期了，我們最好立即把情況告訴他。

• be (or look) a picture
  
  1. be beautiful.
  2. look amusingly startled.
• the big picture
  informal the situation as a whole.
• a (or the) picture of ——
  the embodiment of a specified state or emotion:
  she looked a picture of health.
• (as) pretty as a picture
  very pretty.