A dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations

in the next world

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in the second world —(hist.) in countries like Brazil, India,
Russia, Vietnam and Malaysia that simultaneously have both
first and third world characteristics: Everybody in the “second
world” and “third world” wants to live like people in the “first
world.”
Note: 
Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase
out of this world
—
1
. out of touch with reality; unaware of the
latest ideas, etc.: The general atmosphere of living “out of this
world” and “twenty years or so behind the rest of civilization”
still hangs in there. 2. very strange or bizarre: They are working
on advanced flying machines that might look “out of this
world” to an uninformed observer. 3. (of prices) exorbitant;
unrealistic: We liked the house very much, but the price they
asked for it was out of this world. 4. (coll.) excellent; superb:
We think you’re out of this world as a cook. Absolutely lovely
grub. 5. (of prices) absurdly low: Those qualities add up to out
of this world prices for what wine experts say might be a little
taste of heaven.
See also: in another world / on other worlds.
in the picture • in the pictures
in the picture —(coll.)
1
. in an informed position: OK, now
that you’re one of us, I want you in the picture. 2. said of
smth. probable or likely to happen: I’d like to travel, but it
doesn’t seem like it’s in the picture for a year or so. 3. involved
in a situation: If there were no children in the picture, he
couldn’t understand why she didn’t just leave the man.
in the pictures —(coll.) in the movies: She had not the slight-
est wish to marry anybody from Lowdham Street…. No, she
wanted some kind of Prince Charming like they had in the
pictures.