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Jimmy Hung
2021-05-12 05:05
Can't hold a candle to one phrase
Cannot be as good as another person or thing
The Batman season 2 is good, but it can't hold a candle to the first season.
When it comes to cooking, Linda can't hold a candle to Lisa.
This table can't hold a candle to my family heirloom.
1.Someone viewed with contempt
2. Very bad
A person or group that is weaker, or has less power, money, etc than the rest.
To not be as healthy, strong etc as one formerly was
A person or thing seen as inferior or subservient to others of the same kind or group.
1. Controlled or ruled over by someone or something else.
2. Less importance, power or authority than someone else.
3. To make someone, something, or oneself subservient to someone or something else.
4. To make someone, something, or oneself less important, inferior, or secondary to someone or something else.
The term dates back to the 1600s, when a unskillful apprentice could only be capable of holding a candle to provide light for the master to work. Ones who couldn't even hold a candle for his master were completely useless. Sir Edward Dering's The fower cardinal-vertues of a Carmelite fryar, published in 1641, contains the earliest known citation for this term: "Though I be not worthy to hold the candle to Aristotle."
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