picture is worth a thousand words.

picture is worth a thousand words.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Prov. Pictures convey information more efficiently and effectively than words do. •

It's much easier to learn how machines work by looking at pictures, rather than by hearing someone describe them. A picture is worth a thousand words.

The newspaper editor decided to devote more space to photographs of the disaster than to text, since a picture is worth a thousand words.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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