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