![]() They were planning to leave, but they kept it dark. If you keep something dark, you keep it secret, and if you are in the dark about something, you don’t know anything about it: We’ll start with ignorance and knowledge. There are many common phrases that exemplify this, and this post will look at some of the most common ones. These quotes, from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, perfectly demonstrate the way darkness and light are used as metaphors in English (and many other languages), with darkness suggesting ignorance, evil and unhappiness and light signifying knowledge, purity and happiness. ![]() ‘In the midst of darkness, light persists.’ ‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.’ ![]()
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