C o l o r I d i o m s
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Color IdiomsWith
Princess Mona
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I’m green with envy
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Meaning & Origin
• Very jealous• In antiquity, the Hebrew word for envy, qinah,
referred to the burning color in the face produced by a deep emotion. The Greeks believed that jealousy was accompanied by an overproduction of bile, lending a yellowish-green pallor to the victim’s complexion
• The most famous such reference and the origin of the term “green-eyed monster” is Iago’s speech in Shakespeare’s Othello
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• Sharon: you have the highest degree in the this class
• Mona: really!!!!• Sharon: yes you did ,all your classmates will be
green with envy
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Meaning & Origin
• Be coward• Yellow has always been associated with
treachery, cowardice• In France, the doors of traitor’s houses are
painted with bright yellow
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• Sharon: let’s go ride the roller coaster• Kevin: no I’m so scared• Sharon: don’t be yellow Kevin you can do it• Kevin: okay
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feeling blue
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Meaning & Origin
• Feeling Sad and dejected• coined from a custom among many old
deepwater sailing ships. If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her entire hull when returning to home port."
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• John: did u get your April session evaluation• Sara: yeah but I feel blue about it• John: why ? was it that bad• Sara : yes it was
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Saw red
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Meaning & Origin
• Became furious• related to a bull seeing a red flag (as in a bull
fight), and charging it.
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• John: did you see the game for Boston Celtics last night?
• Gake : yea I got saw red when they didn’t win• John :yea me too
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Paint the town red
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Meaning & Origin
• Lets go out and have a wild time• In the nineteenth century the section of town
where brothels and saloons were located was known as the 'red light district.' So a group of lusty cowhands out for a night 'on the town' might very well take it into their heads to make the whole town red."
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• Sara: today I got the acceptance from the Bu admission office
• Dana: wow lets paint the town red
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In the pink
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Meaning & Origin
• In perfect condition, especially of health• From the association between 'the pink of
condition' and the healthily glowing pink cheeks of new-born babies or energetic sportsmen/sportswomen and the like
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• Sharon: did you go to health works today?• Mona: yea ,I go there every day in order to
stay in the pink