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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bug off »
Used to tell somebody to leave them alone.
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bug out »
Hastily.
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bug out »
To abandon someone without warning.
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bug out »
Miss school, play truant, play hooky.
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bug out »
To cause to bulge.
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bugger all »
Nothing.
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bugger off »
Go away.
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bugger off »
An expression of disagreement or disbelief.
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bugger up »
To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
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don't let the bedbugs bite »
Used to wish a person a good night's sleep.
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keep buggin on »
Never quit; go on
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last post »
military bugle call
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play silly buggers »
To act in a stupid or reckless manner.
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snug as a bug in a rug »
Very cosy and comfortable.
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