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Eudora Thao
2021-02-01 12:02
To Bring the Best Out of Someone British American verb phrase
To make someone show their best traits
I cannot bring out the best in me when I'm under so much pressure.
My husband always encourages me and brings the best out of me because he is a kind, energetic, and knowledgeable man.
My kids really admire and adore their dad, so he definitely brings out the best in them.
The verb "bring" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Bringing out is extracting. Since the late 1800s, variations of extracting the best from someone have been around, as this extract from L.T.'s A Little Mother to the Others Meade, from 1896.
The turn of the century brought many examples of bringing out the best of something, but it wasn't until 1914 that Temple Bailey wrote about bringing out the best in a person, contrary to Mary.
Do you see anything wrong?
It was often said by a photographer when he would like small children to look at the camera and smile before he took a photo.
When the photographer said “watch the birdie”, all of us looked at the camera and smiled.
