light-bulb moment
a moment of sudden inspiration
TRANSLATION
light-bulb moment = das Aha-Erlebnis --- GOOGLE INDEX light-bulb moment: approximately 375,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"It was a LIGHT-BULB MOMENT," he said. "I was thinking, 'There’s got to be a site where you can see a video of businesses instead of having to read about them’."
(Daily Telegraph)
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After what the farmers themselves described as a LIGHT-BULB MOMENT, they spent the next 12 months researching further the advantages and disadvantages of the robotics system.
(Irish Times)
(Daily Telegraph)
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After what the farmers themselves described as a LIGHT-BULB MOMENT, they spent the next 12 months researching further the advantages and disadvantages of the robotics system.
(Irish Times)
Did you
know?
light-bulb moment
idiom
- a moment of sudden realization, enlightenment, or inspiration
(Oxford Dictionary)
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As the Oxford Dictionary points out, a light-bulb moment, when someone suddenly has a idea, stems from the representation of an illuminated light bulb above a character's head in a cartoon or comic strip, to indicate that they have had an idea.
Thomas Edison, the "alleged" inventor of the light bulb, must have felt the same way given the many inventions that he was responsible for. Why alleged? Although he is often viewed as inventor of the light bulb, there were in fact others before him.
Twenty three different light bulbs were developed before Edison's. Among the pre-Edison pioneers of electric lighting, Sir Humphrey Davy created the first electric arc lamp in 1809. Warren De la Rue designed the first incandescent light in 1820. La Rue's design depended on a platinum filament, far too expensive for any practical application.
Edison often gets the credit simply because his product was the first commercially-available light-bulb. The first large-scale test of Edison's lights occurred September 4, 1882 when 25 buildings in New York City's financial district were illuminated.
(partially adapted from synonym.com)
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SYNONYMS
aha moment, awakening, brainchild, epiphany, inspiration, lightning bolt, notion, spark, vision
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I had a light-bulb moment just as I stepped out of the shower."
idiom
- a moment of sudden realization, enlightenment, or inspiration
(Oxford Dictionary)
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As the Oxford Dictionary points out, a light-bulb moment, when someone suddenly has a idea, stems from the representation of an illuminated light bulb above a character's head in a cartoon or comic strip, to indicate that they have had an idea.
Thomas Edison, the "alleged" inventor of the light bulb, must have felt the same way given the many inventions that he was responsible for. Why alleged? Although he is often viewed as inventor of the light bulb, there were in fact others before him.
Twenty three different light bulbs were developed before Edison's. Among the pre-Edison pioneers of electric lighting, Sir Humphrey Davy created the first electric arc lamp in 1809. Warren De la Rue designed the first incandescent light in 1820. La Rue's design depended on a platinum filament, far too expensive for any practical application.
Edison often gets the credit simply because his product was the first commercially-available light-bulb. The first large-scale test of Edison's lights occurred September 4, 1882 when 25 buildings in New York City's financial district were illuminated.
(partially adapted from synonym.com)
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SYNONYMS
aha moment, awakening, brainchild, epiphany, inspiration, lightning bolt, notion, spark, vision
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"I had a light-bulb moment just as I stepped out of the shower."
