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Idioms and Phrases

Be significant, indicate a great deal, as in That house of theirs speaks volumes about their income . This idiom uses volumes in the sense of “the information contained in volumes of books.” [c. 1800]
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Example Sentences

While natural color is no indication of quality, it can speak volumes about character.

While Marville did not campaign for any particular point of view, his photographs speak volumes.

Handbags speak volumes about the women who carry them—Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was no different.

Sometimes a single number—in this case, $2.901 billion—can speak volumes about what is really happening on Wall Street these days.

These trials speak volumes as to the state of feeling and opinion among the vulgar with regard to human liberty.

The trees and plants from that Station certainly speak volumes for the work being done by Supt. Haralson.

The subdued words, the saddened tone seemed to speak volumes.

A stranger need not be a day in Buenos Ayres without discovering this; and such traits speak volumes.

This is not decisive, but it may well be one of those small facts which speak volumes.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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