Colourful Expressions Flashcards
To be tickled pink
Delight
To see red
Anger
To be green with envy
Jealousy
To be in a black mood
Bad tempered
To paint the town red
To celebrate with no shyness
A red rag to a bull
A provocation, something that infuriates
A red-letter day
A memorably important or happy occasion
In the red
In debt
Caught red-handed
Caught in the act
Once in a blue moon
Very rarely, almost never
Out of the blue
Apparently from nowhere , unexpectedly
Blue-eyed boy
Favourite or darling of a individual or group
To blue pencil
Deletion, alteration or censorship
To be green
Gullible, immature, unsophisticated
To give the green light
To give the go ahead
A white lie
A minor or unimportant lie
To show the white flag
Hoisted to signify surrender or request a truce
A white elephant
A possession that’s unwanted by its owner
A white-collar worker
Of or designating non manual and usually salaried workers employed in professional and clerical occupations
White feather
A symbol or mark of cowardice from the belief that a white feather in a gamecock ‘s tail was a sign of a poor fighter
To be on the blacklist
Persons or organizations under suspicion, considered untrustworthy
Black sheep
A person who is regarded as a disgrace or failure by family
The black market
Any system in which goods or currencies are sold and bought illegally
In someone’s back books
Book with names of people to be punished or blacklisted
