Put in the shadow?

[Allen165]

Does the expression "put something in the shadow" exist? If it does, it's another way of saying "overshadow something."

I had never heard it until reading it on the back of a law textbook today. I don't remember the exact sentence, but it read something like, "This textbook puts all the other ones on this subject matter in the shadow." The guy who wrote it had a German name, so I'm thinking he's mother tongue is not English and he translated the German expression "etwas in den Schatten stellen" literally into English.

Thanks.

[emsr2d2]

Does the expression "put something in the shadow" exist? If it does, it's another way of saying "overshadow something."

I had never heard it until reading it on the back of a law textbook today. I don't remember the exact sentence, but it read something like, "This textbook puts all the other ones on this subject matter in the shadow." The guy who wrote it had a German name, so I'm thinking he's mother tongue is not English and he translated the German expression "etwas in den Schatten stellen" literally into English.

Thanks.

I think he mixed up "shadow" with "shade". I would say that "This book puts all others in the shade" would be a perfectly acceptable sentence, meaning that the book in question is much superior to all the others.

[Allen165]

Thanks for the reply.

I'm actually the one who mixed up "shadow" with "shade." It said "shade" on the back of the book, not "shadow." Not sure why I wrote "shadow." Anyway, I had never heard the expression "put something in the shade," so thanks for telling me that it's a legitimate one.

[Raymott]

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