hold a mirror up to

present singular third person holds a mirror up to · participle present holding a mirror up to · participle past held a mirror up to · past held a mirror up to

1. alternativeAlternative form of hold a mirror to.

   To hold as ’twere the mirror up to nature.

   c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 3, scene 2

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   There are so many times when someone needs to hold a mirror up to the face of the Church...

   2017, Rev. David K. Fly, My Life Under the Big Top: Reflections of a Comic, Clown and Priest

   Just as the Sphinx presented a paradigm of self-reference to hold a mirror up to Oedipus, the myth of Oedipus also holds a mirror up to us as witnesses.

   2018, Marcel Danesi, Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric, page 55

   Catherine used comedy to hold a mirror up to her people, to expose and therefore correct the problems of her society.

   2017, Lurana Donnels O'Malley, The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia