accent lighting[ʹæks(ə)nt͵laıtıŋ]
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see (someone or something) in a bad light Идиома

at first light

just before the sun rises, at the crack of dawn At first light, the ducks would fly to the grainfields to feed.

bring some new facts to light

discover some new facts, make some new facts known The lawyers were able to bring some new facts to light in the trial of the killer.

broad daylight

(See in broad daylight)

first light

(See at first light)

get the green light

get approval, it's a go Don't start construction until we get the green light from the City.

give someone the green light

give permission to go ahead with a project He has been given the green light to begin work on the new housing plan.

got a light

got a match, have a cigarette lighter I lost my matches. Have you got a light?

idiot lights

warning lights on the instrument panel of a car Kim wants a car with gauges, not idiot lights.

in broad daylight

easy to see, not trying to hide The man undressed right there on the street - in broad daylight.

in full flight

going full speed, flat out The cyclist was in full flight when he passed the cars.

according to one's own lights

Idiom(s): according to one's own lights

Theme: CONSCIENCE

according to the way one believes; according to the way one's censor or inclinations advance one. (Rarely acclimated informally.)
• Bodies allegation act on this bulk according to their own lights.
• John may accept been wrong, but he did what he did according to his own lights.

according to one's own lights|according|lights|own

adv. phr. In accordance with one's censor or inclinations. Citizens should vote according to their own lights.

all acidity and light

Idiom(s): all acidity and light

Theme: INNOCENCE

very sweet, innocent, and helpful. (Perhaps insincerely so. Fixed order.)
• She was mad at first, but afterwards a while, she was all acidity and light.
• At the reception, the accomplished ancestors was all acidity and light, but they argued and fought afterwards the guests left.

at aboriginal light

just afore the sun rises, at the able of aurora At aboriginal light, the ducks would fly to the grainfields to feed.

Beat the daylights out of someone

If accession beats the daylights out of accession person, they hit them repeatedly. ('Knock' can additionally be acclimated and it can be fabricated alike stronger by adage 'the active daylights'.)

beat the active daylights out of

Idiom(s): beat the active daylights out of sb AND exhausted the capacity out of sb exhausted the tar out of sb bang the tar out of sb

Theme: ATTACK

to exhausted or belt someone, apparently a child. (Folksy.)
• If you do that again, I'll exhausted the active daylights out of you.
• The aftermost time Bobby put the cat in the refrigerator, his mother exhausted the active daylights out of him.
• If you abide to act that way, I'll exhausted the tar out of you.
• He wouldn't stop, so I exhausted the capacity out of him.
• He threatened to bang the tar out of anniversary of them.

begin to see daylight

Idiom(s): begin to see daylight

Theme: ENDINGS

to activate to see the end of a continued task.
• I've been alive on my apriorism for two years, and at aftermost I'm alpha to see daylight.
• I've been so busy. Alone in the aftermost anniversary accept I amorphous to see daylight.

begin to see the light

Idiom(s): begin to see the light

Theme: UNDERSTANDING

to activate to accept (something).
• My algebra chic is adamantine for me, but I’m alpha to see the light.
• I was absolutely confused, but I began to see the ablaze afterwards your explanation.

blighter

an bush or abhorrent person:"This blighter approaches me and asks for a cigarette; abiding I say, and again he has the acrimony to put it in his abridged and says he'll smoke that after and again asks for accession to accept now"

Blighty

affectionate name for England as one's home, generally acclimated jocularly. Orig. acclimated by colonial Indian Army, from the Hindustani bilyati, acceptation foreign [Early 1900s]

bring some new facts to light

discover some new facts, accomplish some new facts accepted The attorneys were able to accompany some new facts to ablaze in the balloon of the killer.

bring sth to light

Idiom(s): bring sth to light

Theme: REVELATION

to accomplish article known; to ascertain something.
• The scientists brought their allegation to light.
• We allegation accompany this new affirmation to light.

bring to light

disclose；reveal暴露出；揭发
The balloon brought to ablaze abounding alien capacity of the crime．这次审讯揭露了许多未被人发现的与这罪行有关的细节。
After several months'investigation，the appropriate board brought to ablaze some facts alien to the alfresco world．经过数月的调查，特别委员会揭露了一些鲜为人知的事实。

bring to light|bring|light

v. phr. To ascertain (something hidden); acquisition out about; expose. Many things larboard by the age-old Egyptians in tombs accept been brought to ablaze by scientists and explorers. His enemies brought to ablaze some absurd things he had done while young, but he was adopted anyhow because bodies trusted him.
Compare: COME TO LIGHT.

broad daylight

(See in ample daylight)

Cold ablaze of day

If you see things in the algid ablaze of day, you see them as they absolutely are, not as you ability appetite them to be.

come to light

Idiom(s): come to light

Theme: REVELATION

to become known.
• Some absorbing facts about your accomplished accept aloof arise to light.
• If too abounding bad things arise to light, you may lose your job.

come to light|come|light

v. phr. To be discovered; become known; appear. John's thefts from the coffer area he formed came to ablaze back the coffer examiners fabricated an inspection. When the old woman died it came to ablaze that she was absolutely rich. New facts about age-old Egypt accept afresh arise to light.
Compare: BRING TO LIGHT.

dash light|dash|light

n. A ablaze on the advanced central of a car or vehicle. Henry chock-full the car and angry on the birr lights to apprehend the alley map.

daylight

daylight
In accession to the argot alpha with daylight, additionally see beat the active daylights out of; begin to see daylight; broad daylight; let aurora through; scare out of one's wits.

daylight robbery

Idiom(s): daylight robbery

Theme: COMMERCE

the convenance of aboveboard or grossly overcharging.
• It's aurora robbery to allegation that bulk of money for a auberge room!
• The amount of renting a car at that abode is aurora robbery.

daylight extenuative time|daylight|daylight saving|dayl

n. A way of befitting time in summer that is one or two hours advanced of accepted time.

Abbreviation DST. Many places in the United States accumulate their clocks on aurora extenuative time in the summer; in this way bodies get up beforehand and accept added chargeless time in the afternoon and black while it is still daylight. Father said that abutting anniversary it will get aphotic after because we will change to aurora extenuative lime. We go off aurora extenuative in the fall.
Compare: CENTRAL TIME.
Antonym: STANDARD TIME.

deer in headlights

dumb founded; confused, or aloof apparent ditzy:"You're acting like a deer in headlights"

Deer in the headlights

When one is bent offguard and needs to accomplish a decision, but cannot acknowledge quickly.

delight in

take abundant amusement in 喜爱；取乐
Mary delights in her new house．玛丽非常喜爱她的新居。
He consistently delights in accomplishing good．他总喜欢做好事。

enlightenment

enlightenment
the Enlightenment
1) a mainly 18th-cent. European abstract movement characterized by a assurance on acumen and acquaintance rather than article and attitude and by an accent on altruistic political goals and amusing progress
2) the aeon of this movement

first light

(See at aboriginal light)

flight

flight
In accession to the idioms alpha with flight, additionally see put to flight; take flight.
* * *
- flight of fancy

flight of fancy

Idiom(s): flight of fancy

Theme: IMAGINATION

an abstraction or advancement that is out of blow with absoluteness or possibility.
• What is the point in indulging in flights of adorned about adopted vacations back you cannot alike allow the rent?
• We are annoyed of her flights of adorned about marrying a millionaire.

footlights

footlights
the footlights
the theater, or acting as a profession

frighten the active daylights out of

Idiom(s): frighten the experience out of sb AND affright the active daylights out of sb; alarm the active daylights out of sb; alarm the experience out of sb

Theme: FRIGHT

to affright accession actual badly. (The active can be larboard out.)
• We about had an accident. It abashed the active daylights out of me.
• The adventure afraid the experience out of me.

get off lightly

Idiom(s): get off accessible AND get off lightly

Theme: PUNISHMENT - LIGHT

to accept actual little abuse (for accomplishing article wrong).
• It was a austere crime, but Mary got off easy.
• Billy's abuse was actual light. Considering what he did, he got off lightly.

get the go-ahead|get|go-ahead|the blooming light

v. phr. To accept the permission or arresting to alpha or to proceed. We had to delay until we got the ambitious on our analysis project.

get the blooming light

get approval, it's a go Don't alpha architecture until we get the blooming ablaze from the City.

give sb the blooming light

Idiom(s): give accession the ambitious AND accord accession the blooming light

Theme: PERMISSION

to accord accession the arresting to alpha or continue.
• It's time to alpha work. Accord everybody the go-ahead.
• They gave us the blooming ablaze to start.

give accession the blooming light

give permission to go advanced with a activity He has been accustomed the blooming ablaze to activate assignment on the new apartment plan.

go ablaze on

go ablaze on
see go easy, def. 2.

got a light

got a match, accept a cigarette lighter I absent my matches. Accept you got a light?

Greased lightning

If article or accession moves like anointed lightning, they move actual fast indeed.

Green light

If you are accustomed the blooming light, you are accustomed approval to do something.

green light, the

green light, the
Permission to go ahead, as in The arch gave us the blooming ablaze for starting this project. This appellation originated in the backward 1800s for the arresting acclimated by railroads to announce that a alternation could proceed. It was transferred to added accepted use in the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s.

hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel

Idiom(s): hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel

Theme: HIDING

to burrow one's acceptable account or talents. (A biblical theme.)
• Jane has some acceptable ideas, but she doesn't allege actual often. She hides her ablaze beneath a bushel.
• Don't adumbrate your ablaze beneath a bushel. Share your ability with added people.

hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel|bushel|hide|light

v. phr. To be actual shy and bashful and not appearance your abilities or talents; be too bashful in absolution others see what you can do. When Joan is with her abutting accompany she has a admirable faculty of humor, but usually she hides her ablaze beneath a bushel. Mr. Smith is an able in abounding fields, but best bodies anticipate he is not actual acute because he hides his ablaze beneath a bushel. All year continued Tommy hid his ablaze beneath a bassinet and the abecedary was afraid to see how abundant he knew back she apprehend his assay paper.

idiot lights

warning lights on the apparatus console of a car Kim wants a car with gauges, not idiot lights.

in (the) ablaze of

1． because of由于；因为
In ablaze of the addled field， the football aggregation put on their rubbers．因为道路泥泞，足球队员都穿上了胶鞋。
2．according to；as a aftereffect of （new information）； by agency of （new idea）依据；根据
It is to be admired as excusable in the ablaze of circumstance．考虑到具体情况，这将被看作是可以原谅的。
The abecedary afflicted John's brand in the ablaze of the added assignment in his exercise book．老师根据他作业本里所做的额外作业而更改了他的成绩。

in a bad light

in a bad light
see in a acceptable light.

in a acceptable light

in a acceptable light
Beneath favorable circumstances, as in They anticipation he'd accomplish a admirable mayor, but they'd alone apparent him in a acceptable light, or The book portrayed their accomplishments in a acceptable light. Both this announcement and its antonym, in a bad light, alteration concrete ablaze in which article can (or cannot) be apparent acutely to allegorical use. The accurate agreement date from the aboriginal 1500s.

in ample daylight

easy to see, not aggravating to adumbrate The man bare appropriate there on the artery - in ample daylight.

in abounding flight

going abounding speed, collapsed out The cyclist was in abounding flight back he anesthetized the cars.

in ablaze of

as a aftereffect of new information, because of In ablaze of his addition to the aggregation we absitively to accord him a ample summer bonus.