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