a smile is worth a thousand words
a smile is worth a thousand words
proverb The gesture of smiling can convey more to others than words alone can. I win people over because I know that a smile is worth a thousand words—and that some big speech will just bore them to sleep!
See also: smile, thousand, word, worth
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- put (something) into words
- put into words
- exchange no more than
- exchange no more than (an amount of) words
- in so many words
- in so/as many words
- have no words for
- have no words for (someone or something)
- too for words
- too funny, sad, etc. for words