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