lost in the shuffle
idiom
US
: not noticed or given attention because there are many other people or things to consider or deal with
With six older kids, the baby sometimes is/gets lost in the shuffle.
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Instead, the rebranding triggered complaints in Hollywood that HBO’s high-quality programming was getting lost in the shuffle.
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Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
On account of the character’s immediate popularity, there was talk of a potential X-23 spinoff, but she was soon lost in the shuffle of the Disney-Fox merger that began nine months after Logan’s March 2017 release.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
And Savannah scrambled throughout her time in the kitchen, her vision for both dishes getting completely lost in the shuffle.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
Meanwhile, Reena herself gets lost in the shuffle, despite copious flashbacks that detail not only the months leading up to her passing but the decades of family history that came before.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
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Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
On account of the character’s immediate popularity, there was talk of a potential X-23 spinoff, but she was soon lost in the shuffle of the Disney-Fox merger that began nine months after Logan’s March 2017 release.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
And Savannah scrambled throughout her time in the kitchen, her vision for both dishes getting completely lost in the shuffle.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
Meanwhile, Reena herself gets lost in the shuffle, despite copious flashbacks that detail not only the months leading up to her passing but the decades of family history that came before.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Lost in the shuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lost%20in%20the%20shuffle. Accessed 18 Sep. 2024.
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