Talk:in silhouette

RFD discussion: April–May 2021

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in silhouette

Looks SOP to me. I could be wrong. Yellow is the colour (talk) 20:48, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

• Delete. Looks SOP to me too, both in silhouette and lit from the front.  --Lambiam 13:00, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Keep as creator. Lemming and set phrase. We also do have many other "in + [noun]" prepositional phrases. Imetsia (talk) 16:33, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Each such prepositional phrase should be considered on its own merits; “we have many other [suchlike]” would obviously not do as an argument for keeping in abundance, in bad company, in camaraderie, ... Here, I think the use of in is the same as seen in in frontal view, in full glory, in profile, and more generally in in black and white, in colour, in costume, and in makeup, qualifying how something is seen or shown. Of those in this list having an entry, in black and white can be justified as also having another meaning, “written down, undeniably recorded”. The other sense is just in +‎ black and white.  --Lambiam 12:01, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

• Keep per above, this may be regarded as another lemming for those who care about such things, although it is not quite a lemma. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 16:45, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Despite being SoP this common phrase seems more awkward the more I think about it, so I can understand why it's a lemming. If it weren't then that wouldn't be much of a leg to stand on. DAVilla 00:07, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

RFD-kept. Imetsia (talk) 17:22, 16 May 2021 (UTC)