| 释义 |
hide one's light under a bushelKeep quiet about one’s talents or accomplishments: please don’t hide your light under a bushel—the Society needs your valuable expertise...- Nowadays to be bright is to be stigmatised, so better to hide your light under a bushel.
- We want to try and get them to believe that it's good to succeed, to feel special, and realise they should not hide their light under a bushel.
- A lot of people hide their light under a bushel.
With biblical allusion to Matt. 5:15 See parent entry: hide |