- 1 Let's take a closer look at that proposal.
- 2 He puts my ideas under a microscope.
- 3 He held it up to scrutiny.
- 4 She examined it closely.
- 5 He wanted to see all sides of the issue.
-- 1 Can you shed more light on this issue? I don't quite see what you are talking about.
-- 2 He spotlighted the issues that were important.
-- 3 She finally opened her eyes to what was going on around her.
-- 1 He still has the illusions of his youth.
-- 2 He sees only what he wants to see.
-- 3 He's not seeing things clearly.
-- 4 The situation was going on under his nose, but he didn't realize it.
-- 1 I was in the dark for a long time.
-- 2 My early training had put blinders on me.
-- 3 I'm just in a fog today, I don't know what is going on.
-- 4 She walks around blindfolded.
-- 5 His eyes are closed to everything around him.
-- 1 He saw through her lies.
-- 2 He could see what was behind my actions.
-- 3 He has eyes in the back on his head.
AG & JE
-- 1 See, you just have to look at it this way.
-- 2 Look out for tricky spots.
-- 3 Just look at what I'm trying to show you.
-- 1 The Watergate cover-up.
-- 2 He put up a good front.
-- 3 He put on an act to hide his true motives.
-- 4 Every spy needs a good cover.
-- 1 They purposefully left me in the dark regarding that point.
-- 2 He's deliberately clouding the issue.
-- 3 They threw up a smoke screen of lies.
-- 4 They obscured the issue.
-- 5 She blinded me with claims of innocence.
Creativity Is Seeing In A Different Light
Note: both of which can be seen. Some cases, however, (e.g. "put ideas under amicroscope") require that the idea be an object..nfNotice WHAT IS NOT MAPPED: Color:Not mapped from the source domain of vision is color.This may be because particular colors do not facilitate orhinder the vision process. We are able to use the color-related notionof camouflage, which is directly relevant to our ability to see:("Well, despite the fact that his brilliantidea was well camouflaged in the midst of all that rhetoric, I wasfinally able to see it"). Motion (?):Quickly moving objects can be difficult to see;it is not clear whether movement is mapped in this metaphor.We do have:I didn't catch that, it was just a blur.He went so fast, that I didn't understand him.But it is not clear in these examples whether speed is affecting visualperformance, or whether it is making the idea difficult to catch (on theUnderstanding is Grasping metaphor) or whether the speed referred to is the speed of the utterance. Although distance can obscure vision we don't say: *I can't see that idea, it's too far away. *Can you bring that idea closer, I'm having trouble understanding your pointBut you CAN say: He examined the idea very closely. He put the idea under a microscope. He brought the ideas down to earth for us. What is crucial is that the English word "see" is typicallyused, not to simply imply contact withthe retina, but to imply becomingaware through vision. i.e.:See=defn by Marr in VISION : to know what is where by looking. Notice that we can say things like:1. The keys were right in front of my eyes, but I didn't see them.2. I believe you that this is a molecule, but all I cansee is a fuzzy mess.3. He listens but he doesn't hear, he looks but he doesn't see. However, we also have sentences like,6. He saw a falling star, but he didn't know what it was.Perhaps, this type of sentence can be understood to involve two mental spaces,the speaker's reality, in which the perception was a falling star, and the subject's reality, in whichit was not recognized as such; this idea would need to be supported by evidence. I think this analysis of SEE unifies the analysis of thefollowing expressions:1. I see what you are saying. (I am aware of what your point is)2. I see. (I am aware of the situation) 3. I see the way to do it. 4. The solution was in front of my eyes, but I didn't see it.5. The situation was going on under my nose, but I didn't see it.6. See, you just have to...7. Look, you just have to....fi
MWLB, specifics by Adele Goldberg