Picture This
See it mentally
Picture This is a phrase used to set up a vivid scenario for the listener to imagine: Picture this: you're on a beach, no phone, no deadlines.
It signals that a description follows, inviting the audience to visualize a scene.
The phrase often introduces hypotheticals, sales pitches, or storytelling: Picture this—a world without plastic.
- imagineForm mental pictures
- visualizeForm mental pictures
- snapshotInformal photograph taken quickly
- photographImage from a camera
- frameSupporting outer structure
just imagine · image · scene · envision · mind's eye · mental image · in your head · canvas · memory · mental · portrait · capture · freeze frame · moment · album · gallery · photo album · lens
- Irish MusicU2, Irish folk, The Cranberries, Van Morrison, traditional tunes
- Irish PeopleMichael Collins, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy
mental engagement
Picture Thiszone out
Become mentally absent
look away · disregard · turn a blind eye · space out · move along
picture, this, pictures, pictured, picturing, pictorial, picturesque, depict, depiction