We've found 53 phrases for WRIT (0.147 seconds):

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!

ballpoint pen »    writing implement

bash out »    To write something very quickly, without much thought.

dash off »    To write quickly or informally.

drop somebody a line »    To write, call or visit somebody.

drop the writ »    To call a federal or provincial election.

fire off »    To write a note or letter quickly.

handwriting on the wall »    Alternative form of writing on the wall. A divine prediction or sentence to fate.

hang paper »    To write a bad check.

hot off the presses »    Freshly printed, minted, written, or created.

in black and white »    Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas.

in Dutch »    Written or spoken in the dutch language.

it's about time »    Used to express impatience at the eventual occurrence of something that the speaker or writer considered to be long overdue.

little pitchers have big ears »    Small children often overhear more of what is said than adults realize or desire.1844, Charlotte M. Yonge, Abbeychurch, ch. 2:Seeing me listening to something she was saying to Mamma, she turned round upon me with that odious proverb, "Little pitchers have long ears."1939, "Bedtime Bedlam," Time, 17 Apr.:A caution to U. S. parents, but a joy to radio merchandising, is the dread truth that little pitchers have big ears.2002, Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, ISBN 9780743455961, p. 185:I suppose he might say pushed or went woowoo, but took a shit is, I fear, very much in the ballpark (little pitchers have big ears, after all).

mark down »    To write a memorandum about.

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