put (someone or something) in the shade Idiome

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shades

sunglasses, tinted glasses Erica looks cool in her shades. She looks like a model.

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shades of

like, similar to That building looks familiar - shades of our old school.

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beat seven shades of shit out of someone

to thoroughly beat up

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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.

Nothing is achieved without effort.

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Made in the shade

One has an easy time in life or in a given situation. Finding things working to one's benefit.

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Shades of meaning

Shades of meaning is a phrase used to describe the small, subtle differences in meaning between similar words or phrases; 'kid' and 'youth' both refer to young people, but carry differing views and ideas about young people.

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shade

shade
1.
in the shade
or into the shade
1) in (or into) darkness or shadow
2) in (or into) comparative obscurity, or a position of minor importance
2.
shades of
something reminding one of something (or someone) past shades of Prohibition!
3.
the shades
1) the increasing darkness, as of evening
2)
1) the world of the dead; Hades
2) the disembodied spirits of the dead, collectively

put (someone or something) in the shade

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put someone/something in the shade

If one being or affair puts addition in the shade, they are so absorbing that they accomplish the added being or affair assume unimportant or beneath acceptable by comparison. Such was her adorableness that alike in her sixties, she managed to put adolescent women in the shade. The celebrations are so absurd they would put Mardi Gras in the shade. Note: Adumbration actuality agency the adumbration or black produced by blocking the light. Learn more: put, shade, someone, something

put somebody/something in the ˈshade

(informal) be abundant bigger or added acknowledged than somebody/something: The new amateur absolutely puts the blow of the aggregation in the shade. OPPOSITE: cannot authority a candle to somebody/somethingLearn more: put, shade, somebody, something

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