Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “hold something up to the light” and its meaning is “if you are holding something up to the light, you see through & understand the true nature of it clearly; get to the bottom of, get to know, come to understand, comprehend, find, identify, recognize something clearly”.
Example Sentence: Since 2016, successive data leaks have exposed the methods by which some of the world’s most powerful companies and individuals secrete eye-watering sums of money off-shore, beyond the reach of tax authorities and governments. Collaboratively reported by investigative journalists from around the world, the Panama, Pandora and Paradise Papers have held the dark practices and financial chicanery (cheating) practised by the super-rich up to the light.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on Credit Suisse: in search of a moral compass and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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