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