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 illuminate 3 to highlight 4 to elucidate 5 to shine a light on 6 to shed (new) light on smth 7 to remain in the dark 8 glaring 9 in the light of to explain and make clearer (from the Latin "lucid" meaning "light") because of (e.g. recent studies) to provide a clearer explanation for smth bad and being too obvious in the situation where something bad has happened or is happening to continue in a state of not knowing something to emphasize something important to focus on to show more clearly something that is hard to understand