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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birds of a feather flock together »
People of similar character, background, or taste tend to congregate or associate with one another.
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birds of the feather flock together »
People who are alike physically tend to congregate and socialize together, despite government efforts at forced integration.
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bridge »
An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
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chase down »
To investigate the cause of something.
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cross paths »
August 5 2004, SFGate.com.
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cry one's eyes out »
To weep for an elongated time, or in an excessive manner.
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drill down »
To examine information at another level or in greater detail; especially in a database, to navigate to a more detailed level or record.
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grunt work »
That is considered undesirable and therefore delegated to underlings.
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lay down the law »
To promulgate law.
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look into »
To investigate, explore, or consider.
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penny wise and pound foolish »
Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful and profligate with large amounts.
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pissing contest »
An argument which is instigated, or exacerbated while consuming alcohol.
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pull one's own weight »
To do the work that one is obligated to.
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pull one's weight »
To do the work that one is obligated to.
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put out feelers »
To explore or watch for; ask around; investigate.
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put through the wringer »
To interrogate or scrutinize closely; to subject to some trial or ordeal.
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rumor mill »
A group or network of persons who originate or promulgate gossip and other unsubstantiated claims.
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scope out »
To examine; to scout; to investigate; to check out.
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