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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act like a bull in a china shop »
To act rudely or clumsily in a delicate situation.
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all eyes »
Watching alertly or attentively.
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all the tea in China »
Something priceless or invaluable.
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at hand »
Near; soon; approaching; imminent.
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bed down »
To lie down to sleep for the night, usually of livestock or machinery.
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bolt bucket »
A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.
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boys and their toys »
Used to evoke the idea that adult men sometimes dote excessively on machines, automobiles, and gadgets in a childish manner.
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bring up »
To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
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bucket of bolts »
A piece of machinery that is not worth more than its scrap value, often of old cars.
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by hand »
Manually; without the use of automation or machines.
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catch out »
To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground.
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catch up »
To be reaching something that had been ahead.
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chin up »
Be happy; cheer up.
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chinese gooseberry »
kiwi fruit
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