Relier Pairs Metaphors and Idioms (input)Version en ligne Academic Wordskills - 09 (Metaphors and Idioms) par Филипп Леонидович 1 to remain in the dark 2 to elucidate 3 in the light of 4 to shed (new) light on smth 5 to highlight 6 to shine a light on 7 in the shadow of 8 glaring 9 to illuminate bad and being too obvious to provide a clearer explanation for smth to focus on to explain and make clearer (from the Latin "lucid" meaning "light") to show more clearly something that is hard to understand to continue in a state of not knowing something because of (e.g. recent studies) to emphasize something important in the situation where something bad has happened or is happening