life's rich tapestry
- idiom
- Archaic
:
la rica tapicería de la vida
- Her story reflects life's rich tapestry of experiences.
Examples
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Every person you meet weaves a new thread into life's rich tapestry.
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She often reflects on life's rich tapestry, noting how each experience shaped who she is today.
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She believes that even failures contribute to life's rich tapestry.
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The ups and downs we face are what make life's rich tapestry so fascinating.
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We often discuss life's rich tapestry in our philosophy class.
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The documentary beautifully illustrates life's rich tapestry, showcasing the diverse stories of many individuals.
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In his speech, he emphasized that life's rich tapestry includes both triumphs and hardships that define our journey.
Synonyms
A mix of different life events that shape a person
Different parts of life have their own good things to enjoy one at a time
How Varied
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase builds a metaphor from the literal 'tapestry' (a woven cloth) combined with 'life' and 'rich', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer that it describes life as a richly woven, varied set of experiences. However this requires a figurative/metaphorical inference (and relies on knowing the figurative use of 'tapestry'), so the meaning is only partially predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Life's rich tapestry comes from the image of a large woven cloth where life's means a person's life and tapestry is the woven cloth, and each thread stands for a different event, with bright threads for happy times and dark threads for hard times. That picture helps show why the phrase means the 'many different' experiences that make up a person's life.