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