throw light on

verb

verb

To make clear; to elucidate; to provide an explanation for (something puzzling or mysterious).

As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study.1894, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:

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