"Issues are seen through the prism of religion and region." This idiom can also be rephrased as "seen through a prism", "looked through a prism". This can also mean that someone has been affected by some other influence and by that the person looks at something differently from before. Here the prism is being referred to the idea of distortion and different perspectives (as a light would do as it hits a prism), so the idiom is talking about looking at something in a completely different perspective. In the phrase "Looking through a prism", the word prism here is being used differently from the prism we use normally (being used metaphorically). Would someone please elaborate on this idiomatic phrase?Īdditionally, would someone explain what contexts it would be appropriate to use this phrase and which contexts is it not appropriate to use this phrase? I still fail to understand this idiom's meaning. Looked back at the past through the prism of the present.
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