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