a picture paints a thousand words »
A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.1971, David Gates (of Bread), If, from Manna album:If a picture paints a thousand wordsThen why can't I paint you;The words will never showThe you I've come to know.1989, Alan Kay, quoted in K?o-tung Huang, Timothy D. Huang, Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing, World Scientific, ISBN 9971506645, p. 9:Most human beings, no matter how familiar they are with abstract symbols, respond to voice and images better than written language. In other words, A picture paints a thousand words.2006, Paul Shakespeare, Building a Dune Buggy: The Essential Manual, ISBN 1904788734, p. 52:See accompanying diagram: a picture paints a thousand words, and all that!
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absence makes the heart grow fonder »
When someone or something is faraway, you realise how much you love (or miss) them or it.
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abstract nonsense »
Details which involve diagram chasing.
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bet the farm »
To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts.
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black »
Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
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blue moon »
Something absurd.
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crab mentality »
A way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs in which one tries to escape over the side, but is relentlessly pulled down by the others in the pot.
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darn tootin' »
Absolute, utter, complete, very.
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darn tootin' »
Absolutely correct; speaking the truth.
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dead »
: So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.
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diplomatic flu »
An illness feigned by one or more government officials or other public figures as an excuse for an absence really based on political reasons.
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dribs and drabs »
A series of negligible amounts.
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fill in »
To fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed.
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free rein »
The absence of constraints; freedom to make decisions.
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golf widow »
A woman who is deprived of her husband's time and attention due to his regular absence in order to play golf.
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