thyself,’ is the answer of his neighbours. 1979 G. SWARTH-OUT Skeletons 150 Tell me
the truth. Don’t dig yourself in any deeper. Physician, heal thyself. 2002 National Review
11 Feb. 26 As for those who get bent out of shape when they’re ‘Dr.’-less, all we can say
is, ‘Ph.D., heal thyself.’ doctorspick see HAWKS will not pick out hawks’ eyes; see a PIN and pick it up, all the day you’ll
have good luck.
pickle (small quantity): see MANY a little makes a mickle.One PICTURE is worth ten thousand wordsThere is no foundation to the ascription of Chinese origin in quots 1925 and 1927.1921 Printers Ink 8 Dec. 96 One look is worth a thousand words. 1925 Washington
Post 26 July (Amusements section) 2/2 ‘The picture is worth ten thousand words.’ So
says an old Chinese proverb. 1927 Printers’ Ink 10 Mar. 114 Chinese proverb, One
picture is worth ten thousand words. 1954 R. HAYDN Journal of Edwin Carp 90 ‘One
picture speaks louder than ten thousand words.’ Mr. Bovey repeated the adage this
morning when.. he handed me my finished portrait. 1979 Scientific American Oct. 118 A
picture is worth a thousand words. 2001 New Scientist 17 Nov. 59 [In a photograph] the
mask is being worn with the bottom strap cut off or dangling. A picture is worth a
thousand words, but here are eight to redress the balance: ‘If there’s only one strap, it’s
probably crap.’ example, good and bad; illustrationEvery PICTURE tells a storyQuot. 1847 antedates the use of this saying as an advertiser’s catch-phrase.1847 C. BRONTË Jane Eyre I. i. The letter-press.. I cared little for. .. Each picture
told a story. 1904 Daily Mail 26 Feb. 8 A London woman and Doan’s Backache Kidney
Pills. .. ‘Every picture tells a story.’ 1967 E. WILLIAMS Beyond Belief iv. xxiii. Every
Picture Tells a Story. .. Sergeant Carr stood with his.. back to the fireplace, the lady next
to the budgie, the dog next to her. 2001 Times Literary Supplement 2 Nov. 8 ‘We extend
that which is limited by a frame to before and after, and through the craft of telling
stories.. we lend the immutable picture an infinite and inexhaustible life.’ This is not
merely a gloss on ‘every picture tells a story’, but an unfashionably specific and an
unfashionably true observation. example, good and bad; illustration