The meaning of 'paint you in the best light'?

English as a Second Language English Teacher Explanations (ESL Tests)
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Please help me explain the meanings of following sentences:

  1. Being at the shoulder of people who are making the decisions is a vastly different story than being in a position to read magazine.
  2. I’m not going to paint you in the best light.

Thank you very much!

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  1. Being at the shoulder of people who are making the decisions is a vastly different story than being in a position to read magazine. = Working with decision-makers is much better than reading about decision-making.

  2. I’m not going to paint you in the best light. – I’m not going to present a very good image of you.

3

Thank you very much, Sir!

4

Dear Sir!
I have another question as follows:
Does ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ has the same meaning with ‘All work and much play’?
Thanks!

5

That should be pretty obvious, Galilom - ‘no’ means ‘no’ and ‘much’ means ‘a lot of’. They are quite opposite in meaning. In any case, it is a fixed saying.

6

So 2 above sentences means ‘We should work and rest properly’???

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No. I have already said that your idea for changing the sentence is not the same meaning at all.

‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ does mean, however, that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. A balance should be reached.