throw light on

Related to throw light on: shed light on, make light of

throw (some) light on (something)

To reveal information or details about something; to clarify or help people understand something. We've hired a private investigator to help throw light on the clandestine dealings of the baron. These documents we've uncovered throw some light on how the late author's final book was meant to end.

throw (or cast or shed) light on

help to explain (something) by providing further information about it.

shed light on, to

To explain or clarify. This term was used literally, in the sense of illuminating something, from the fourteenth century. In the fifteenth century light came to be used figuratively for “understanding.” George J. Adler used the expression in his translation of Fauriel’s History of Provençal Poetry (1860): “On these antecedents that I shall first endeavor to shed some light.”

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释义	throw light on Related to throw light on: shed light on, make light of throw (some) light on (something) To reveal information or details about something; to clarify or help people understand something. We've hired a private investigator to help throw light on the clandestine dealings of the baron. These documents we've uncovered throw some light on how the late author's final book was meant to end. See also: light, on, throw Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. throw (or cast or shed) light on help to explain (something) by providing further information about it. See also: light, on, throw Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary shed light on, to To explain or clarify. This term was used literally, in the sense of illuminating something, from the fourteenth century. In the fifteenth century light came to be used figuratively for “understanding.” George J. Adler used the expression in his translation of Fauriel’s History of Provençal Poetry (1860): “On these antecedents that I shall first endeavor to shed some light.” See also: light, shed The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: cast cast (some) light on (something) cast/shed/throw light on something shed (some) light on (something) cast (some) light upon (something) shed (some) light upon (something) give (one) a/the feel of (something) be (one's) man/woman be somebody's man/woman ploughs
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