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