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