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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best of both worlds »
A combination of two seemingly contradictory benefits.
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black babies »
Third world charities, the missions.
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comfort woman »
A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II.
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end of the world »
Any change that seems catastrophic or devastating.
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end of the world »
End of habitability for life on Earth.
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end of the world »
End of humanity.
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end of the world »
End of the planet Earth.
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for all the world »
Entirely, to all appearances.
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fourth wall »
The imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
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give birth »
To produce new life into the world; to have a baby. Transitive when used with to.
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goodbye cruel world »
A call said before taking a stiff drink, especially a shot of vodka.
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goodbye cruel world »
An exclamation made before commiting suicide, or in a suicide note.
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have been around »
To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive.
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it takes all kinds to make a world »
Diversity is essential: the world would be incomplete if everyone were alike.He irons his clothes how?! That's crazy! Well, I guess it takes all kinds.
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