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a picture is worth a thousand words

a picture is easier to understand than a report or essay Instead of more talk, I'll draw thousand words a diagram. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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bat a thousand

hit every time at bat, win every competition I've had two interviews and two offers. I'm batting a thousand!

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hundred/thousand/million and one

very/too many I can think of a hundred and one reasons why the new employee is not capable of doing his job.

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picture is worth a thousand words

(See a picture is worth a thousand words)

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one in a thousand

very good indeed千中之一；难得的人（或物）
Tom，not one in a thousand would have forgiven you as he has done．汤姆，很少有人会象他那样原谅你的。
She's one in a thousand．She does her work quickly and conscientiously and can always be relied on．她这个人是很难得的，干活利索认真，又总是那么可信赖。

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Death of a thousand cuts

If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small bad things are happening, none of which are fatal in themselves, but which add up to a slow and painful demise.

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Sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question

The sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question is the most important question that can be asked about something.

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A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

A visual presentation is far more descriptive than words.

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by the dozen|by the hundred|by the thousand|dozen|

adv. phr. Very many at one time; in great numbers. Tommy ate cookies by the down. Often used in the plural, meaning even larger numbers. The ants arrived at the picnic by the hundreds. The enemy attacked the fort by the thousands.

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bat one thousand

bat one thousand
Have a perfect record, as in In meeting deadlines, she's batting one thousand. The term comes from baseball statistics, where it signifies getting a hit for every turn at bat. It was transferred to other activities in the 1920s.

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one picture is worth a thousand words

one picture is worth a thousand words
see picture is worth a thousand words, one.

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picture is worth a thousand words, one

picture is worth a thousand words, one
A graphic illustration conveys a stronger message than words, as in The book jacket is a big selling point—one picture is worth a thousand words. This saying was invented by an advertising executive, Fred R. Barnard. To promote his agency's ads he took out an ad in Printer's Ink in 1921 with the headline “One Look Is Worth a Thousand Words” and attributed it to an ancient Japanese philosopher. Six years later he changed it to “Chinese Proverb: One Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words,” illustrated with some Chinese characters. The attribution in both was invented; Barnard simply believed an Asian origin would give it more credibility.

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thousand

thousand
see bat one thousand; by the dozen; one in a million; picture is worth a thousand words, one.