2006-07-04 09:00:01 · 20 answers · asked by missD 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It's someone with lots of possibilities.
A diamond in the rough is one that hasn't yet been cut to form a brilliant gemstone.
2006-07-04 09:03:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there
Firstly diamonds are formed over millions of years. The youngest diamonds are about 900 million years old, the oldest over 3 billions years - and they have no wrinkles :-)
Diamonds are normally extracted by mining, when they have initially been mined they are, to the novice, a bit like a piece of rock with some shiny crystal in it. This is when they are in the rough stage straight after mining.
Next they are processed, initially to clean and remove unwanted materials. In this state they are ready to sell as "rough diamonds".
The next stage is for the rough diamond to be cut into one or more pieces. Normal practise is to cut the largest single diamond possible from the "rough" as this will have greatest value in terms of $ per carat.
If you want to know some more about diamonds I can recommend www.bestdiamonds.co.uk. They have some great information about diamonds.
I hope this helps
2006-07-05 01:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"a diamond in the rough" basically means that the diamond is the person or thing and "in the rough" means that they haven't fully devolped yet. i.e.~ a decent baseball player in high school would be a diamond in the rough because he/she is not entirely great, but is getting there. i.e.~ while making a cd that isnt done yet it would be "a diamond in the rough" because you might have finished the cd, but you still need to work out all the details and sounds and such.
2006-07-04 14:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A diamond that you see in a jewelery store is bright, shiny, pretty, very beautiful thing. But "in the rough" it looks like any pebble you might pick up from your driveway. Similarly, applied to a person who may be doesn't look like much or behaviourially is a bit "rough around the edges" but deep down inside is truly a really beautiful soul, just waiting for the right circumstances for that beauty to be revealed, like the jeweller reveals the diamon, might be said to be a diamond in the rough.
2006-07-05 15:16:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try watching Aladdin. Aladdin is a "diamond in the rough".
2006-07-04 09:04:53 · answer #5 · answered by Mae V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gemstones don't look like pretty sparkly jewls when they are found outside in the dirt, they just look like rocks kind of. the state before being cut is called the rough. it's like a raw diamond.
2006-07-04 09:06:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't understand if it really is not seeing someone's' finished ability. which will be a lengthy-time period lack of expertise or merely short-sightedness. i imagine of it extra as a prejudicial low expectation of issues or human beings in a particular environment and coming upon an exception and actual seeing its or his or her larger ability inspite of our environment. this would, with any success, eliminate the unfairness. yet it really is a paragraph. not a note. 2 words? Exceeding expectancies? perhaps 3? a great deal exceeding expectancies? possibly "serendipitous"? although i don't understand if that has an completely constructive which potential.
2016-11-05 21:26:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically that the diamond needs dug out. That you see hints of it but that it isn't really worth anything at the moment.
2006-07-04 09:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a person who isnt polished and finished off but has a sparkling personality...like a rough diamond before its finished off
2006-07-04 09:05:16 · answer #9 · answered by pineforestkim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
something beautiful and perfect in a very unexpected place... like finding a perfect cut diamond in the middle of a field of ugly rocks.
2006-07-04 09:04:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋