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14 de oct. de 2021 · Oct 14, 2021. #2. There are several possibilities for most of them, but the basic difference is that you shine a torch (flashlight) at a thing when you direct the light in that direction, so you can shine it at anything of almost any size - wall, person, tree, squirrel. But the front yard is too big to be picked out this way; it's not in one ...
26 de abr. de 2016 · May 1, 2016. #5. Thank you very much, Truffula. For what it's worth, I will add another possible origin that I've found on a website: ‘Shine on” is an expression that has been around since the 1950s. It means to ignore, to reject, to disregard, to avoid, skip. Later it also came to mean to disparage someone. It is said to have originated ...
3 de sept. de 2017 · Don't shine that light in my face, man. “Please don't do that,” I say. Spencer yanks the light away and shines it into my face again. The policeman played his torch over the men's faces (Woah) shine a light on Shine a light on me (Woah) shine a light on Shine a light on me Why three...
12 de oct. de 2021 · Yes. It could mean that. Or it could mean that you opened the door of the car and shined your flashlight inside to find something. It means to direct the beam of the flashlight at an object. People often use at rather than on to express the same idea: He shined his flashlight at me. = He shined his flashlight on me.
6 de oct. de 2016 · Oct 6, 2016. #7. Not to make a list or anything, but this expression (which I've never heard either) is being used very much like a much more common one: "blowing smoke up your ass." This expression means "kidding you" or "misleading you" or sometimes "conning you," and it sounds as though the "sunshine" version is being used in exactly the ...
20 de nov. de 2018 · English - England. Nov 20, 2018. #2. To gleam -> to shine softly; to shine with a brightness subdued by distance or an intervening medium. To shine -> to reflect light clearly and sharply. To glow -> to emit light, usually softly or weakly, from itself. A glow is always cause by some form of energy.
28 de jul. de 2022 · But in later years when the students started working with patients in a clinical environment and needed to collaborate with each other in teams, students who demonstrated other-interest traits—like extroversion, openness to helping, and agreeableness to assist classmates— performed at the...
21 de feb. de 2016 · Shine a light in my face. Shine a light into my face. WordReference.com Language Forums. Forums
1 de feb. de 2010 · Korea, Korean. Feb 1, 2010. #1. While we are still forecasting reduced year over year revenues for 2010, we are encouraged in that we have recently achieved some significant customer wins across our businesses, and we’ll be shining a light on those in future updates. This is from a company's business update of the first quarter of 2010.
24 de ene. de 2011 · Honolulu, HI. American English. Jan 24, 2011. #3. To add to JillN's message, we say "rise and shine" to awaken someone. And "bright and shiny" is a couplet that we use for, well, shiny things.
