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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bang up job »
Something done very well; something performed above average or better than expected.
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believe you me »
An emphatic form of "believe me"; you [the subject] had better believe me [the speaker].
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better an egg today than a hen tomorrow »
It is better to have a sure thing now than a possibility of more later.
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better safe than sorry »
It is preferable to be cautious in one's choices and actions than to suffer afterwards.
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better than sex »
Superlative; wonderful.
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better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all »
Having experience of love, even if it ended, is better than having no experience of love.Love is worthwhile despite the pain involved in separation.
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better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness »
In the face of bad times or hopelessness, it is more worthwhile to do some good, however small, in response than to complain about the situation.
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brass ring »
Figuratively, a prize or goal. Often used with respect to employment goals e.g. promotion, better job, etc.
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build a better mousetrap »
To invent the next great thing; to have a better idea.
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circles around »
Far faster or better than.
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discretion is the better part of valour »
It is often wise to refrain from seemingly brave speech or action.1597
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get better »
To improve.
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get better »
To recover from an illness.
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get the better of »
To overwhelm or overcome; to influence heavily; to tend to control or persuade.
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