Jan 21, 2019
A Phrasal Verb a Day #154 - TO PROJECT ONTO
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to project something onto someone
This is not just to do with projecting movies onto a screen, but it's about projecting your feelings onto other people.
Definition
1. To display pictures or films on a screen by projecting light through an image, like in a cinema.
2. In a similar way to 1. (above) it is possible for us to project our emotions onto other people.
The Macmillan dictionary defines it like this:
to imagine an emotion that you feel is also being felt by someone else, especially without realizing that you are doing this