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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ark ruffian »
Rogues who, in conjunction with watermen, robbed, and sometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a quarrel with the passengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering, stripping, and throwing them overboard, etc. A species of badger.
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behind the counter »
Of drugs, dispensed by a pharmacist without needing a doctor's prescription or other form of compliance.
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black-on-black »
A description of the colors of an automobile .
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bump and grind »
A sexually suggestive dance involving exaggerated hip movements, especially a striptease dance.
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come to grips »
To confront or deal with directly.
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drip »
To fall one drop at a time.
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drip »
To have a superabundance of valuable things. Usually followed by "with".
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drip »
To leak slowly.
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drip »
To put a small amount of a liquid on something, drop by drop.
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field day »
A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.
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get a grip »
To relax; to calm down; to stop being angry; to come to one's senses or become more rational.
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go to seed »
To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds.
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guilt trip »
A feeling of shame or embarrassment, especially if self-indulgent, unwarranted, exaggerated or felt over a significant period of time.
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guilt trip »
Remarks intended to produce such a feeling.
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