be a foil to / for sb / sth

be a foil to / for sb / sth to emphasize the good qualities of another person or thing, by being very different from them衬托出某人/某物; 作为某人/某物的陪衬:•The simple stone floor is the perfect foil for the brightly coloured furnishings.朴素的石材地板完美地衬托出这些色彩鲜艳的家具。

• I / you can count sb / sth on (the fingers of) one hand
• courtroom
• zanier
• uniform resource locator
• turndown
• in-processing
• azotometer
• stream down
• critical properties
• olericulture
• enarthrosis
• Spanish practices
• need (to have) your head examined
• go postal
• persuaded
• abiogenically
• knowledge information processing system
• margin fee system
• caucasuss
• freehandedly
• heyse, Paul (Johann von)
• vicinal
• awake to
• garden engine
• hibernation
• pottie
• point of switch
• ethinyl
• health-givings
• Seyfert
• recensions
• canterburies
• DDCS
• barbarising
• fix one’s attention on
• Senior Net
• primary fault
• cross one's heart
• water toothpick
• with (a) bad (或 ill) grace
• torsion group
• aq.ferv.
• be up against it
• skolite
• moldboards
• kojis
• cocoas
• parrich
• bend sinister
• root for sb
• portage
• man of business
• topectomy
• cariniform
• gnotobiotical
• nutmeg
• jump off
• skid road
• act psychology
• RPFS
• nephelometer
• distress frequency
• American selling price
• egolessness
• orchiectomies
• auto-da-fe
• inklike
• Dors.
• crystal habit
• a twinkle in one's eye
• schnockered
• speak up for
• microsomal enzyme
• brazilin
• eyes out
• St. Marys
• disclaimers
• NCCM
• blastostyle
• seat belt
• guiding center
• a moot point / question
• mouchoir
• break sweat
• Europeanists
• gyttjas
• counterproductive
• barometric error
• prang
• well over
• beat the clock
• venal
• put a wrong construction on
• knee-high to a duck
• quickies
• the pit of one's （或the） stomach
• benedicts
• La Tene
• aerial mine
• chairwomen