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Color Idioms

Let’s Learn Color Idioms

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Beet Red(Dark red, usually to describe the face)

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Red Handed(Caught in the Act of doing something bad)

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Red Tape(Paper work)

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Red Eye(An airplane flight that takes off after midnight)

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Yellow-Bellied(Cowardly)

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The Green light

• Permission

• For example: The builders were given the ‘green light’ to begin the tower.

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Green with Envy

• To be very Jealous.

• For example: She is green with envy over her sister’s new boyfriend.

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Grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence

• You always want what you can’t have.

• For example: Another man’s rice cake always seems bigger.

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To have the blues(To be really sad or depressed)

• Also, a style of music.

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Once in a blue moon

• Very rarely

• For example: We only go out for dinner once in a blue moon.

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Out of the blue

• Unexpectedly, suddenly

• For example: I got offered a job out of the blue last week on the bus.

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Born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

• Born into a rich family, or just really spoiled.

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Every cloud has a silver lining

• There is always something good to get out of a situation.

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Golden opportunity

• The perfect moment to do something.

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Black and White

• Straight forward, very clear.

• The rules we gave the kids were black and white, no answering the phone or door.

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Gray area(Shades of Gray)

• Not straight forward, unclear.

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True Colours

• Real self

• For example: Sherryl doesn’t show her true colours when she has guests over.

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With flying colours

• With distinction.

• I passed my test with flying colours!!