speak volumes

1. Be significant, indicate a great deal, as in That house of theirs speaks volumes about their income. This idiom uses volumes in the sense of “the information contained in volumes of books.” [c. 1800]

Example Sentences

Stiller has pared down hours of archival footage, diaries, letters and recorded tapes to craft something that will speak volumes to both Stiller & Meara fans and anyone missing a parent, eager to revel in that singular kind of familial love that feels so much sharper once someone is gone.

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What Congress does in the next several days about this episode will speak volumes – or not – about whether it intends to ever reassert itself as an equal branch of government.

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While the process itself did not lead to decisive action on either front, it did speak volumes about Pope Francis' desire that his pontificate was rooted not in Rome and in clerics but in the lives of believers around the world.

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All of those gestures are simple and doable and speak volumes.

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And I think that that silence really does speak volumes.

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