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