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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assault and battery »
. This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.
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balls up »
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ball up.
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beat out »
To extinguish.
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bite one's tongue »
An admonishment to someone who has said something unfeeling or harsh.
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bite one's tongue »
To forcibly prevent oneself from uttering a word.
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burn out »
To extinguish due to lack of fuel.
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cat got someone's tongue »
Why are you not saying anything?.
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catch fire »
Become engulfed with flames.
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double Dutch »
A language game akin to pig Latin.
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double Dutch »
Incomprehensible language.
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double-tongued »
Saying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech.
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dumb down »
To convey some subject matter in simple terms, avoiding technical or academic language, especially in a way that is considered condescending.
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eat out »
To perform cunnilingus.
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eat pussy »
To perform cunnilingus.
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