The imagination

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• The Pleasures of the Imagination — is a long didactic poem by Mark Akenside, first published in 1744.The first book defines the powers of imagination and discusses the various kinds of pleasure to be derived from the perception of beauty; the second distinguishes works of… …   Wikipedia

• by no stretch of the imagination —    The expression by no stretch of the imagination means however hard you may try to believe or imagine it .     By no stretch of the imagination could he be called handsome …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• by no stretch of the imagination — not by any/by no/stretch of the imagination phrase used for saying that you think something cannot be true or possible no matter how hard you try to imagine it It’s not a great work of cinema by any stretch of the imagination. Thesaurus: ways of… …   Useful english dictionary

• leave something to the imagination — leave (something) to the imagination : to not show or describe all of the parts or details of (something) Try to leave something to the imagination. The movie s sex scenes leave nothing to the imagination. [=they show everything] His explicit… …   Useful english dictionary

• leave to the imagination — leave (something) to the imagination : to not show or describe all of the parts or details of (something) Try to leave something to the imagination. The movie s sex scenes leave nothing to the imagination. [=they show everything] His explicit… …   Useful english dictionary

• not by any stretch of the imagination — not by any/by no/stretch of the imagination phrase used for saying that you think something cannot be true or possible no matter how hard you try to imagine it It’s not a great work of cinema by any stretch of the imagination. Thesaurus: ways of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Mathematics and the Imagination (book) — Book cover, from 2001 Dover edition Mathematics and the Imagination is a book published in New York by Simon Schuster in 1940. The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. The illustrator Rufus Isaacs provided 169 figures. It rapidly became …   Wikipedia

• not by any stretch of the imagination — not by any stretch (of the imagination) even if you try, it is still difficult to accept. She was never a great player, not by any stretch of the imagination. He s nice looking but by no stretch of the imagination could you describe him as… …   New idioms dictionary

• by any/no stretch of the imagination — see ↑stretch, 2 • • • Main Entry: ↑imagination by any/no stretch of the imagination used to emphasize that something is not true, does not happen, etc. They re not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. [=they re not wealthy at all] By no… …   Useful english dictionary

• leave little to the imagination — not leave much/leave little/to the imagination phrase to show or describe so much of something that people do not have to imagine what the rest is like This expression is used especially for talking about sex or about people who show parts of… …   Useful english dictionary

• not by any stretch of the imagination — (not) by any stretch of the imagination if you say that by no stretch of the imagination can you describe something or someone in a particular way, you mean that this way of describing them is certainly not correct. She was never a great player,… …   New idioms dictionary