Expresiónes 01 Color

Question 1

1. (estar) estoy sin blanca

2. a minim (mus), a white piece (en ajedrez)

Answer 1

1. I have no money (exp. people don’t ever say this literally) (1 of 2)
2. What is a “blanca”? (2)

Question 2

1. (estar) estoy (hoy) a dos velas

2. a candle, a sail (saling)

Answer 2

1. I have no money (exp. people don’t ever say this literally) (2 of 2)
2. What is a “vela”?

Question 3

1. (no) tengo (mucho) pasta
2. (no) tengo (mucho) pelas
3. peseta
4. tiene muchas pelas

Answer 3

1. I (don’t) have (much) money (2) (colloq)
2. what is a “pela”?
3. He’s loaded

Question 4

1. pasaba las noches en blanco

Answer 4

1. she passed the night wide awake

Question 5

1. sex

Answer 5

what is verde the colour of?

Question 6

un chiste verde

Answer 6

a dirty joke

Question 7

un viejo verde

Answer 7

a dirty old man

Question 8

1. estar verde

2. está verde en historia

Answer 8

1. to be inexperienced, to have a clue about (a subject)

2. he doesn’t have a clue about history

Question 9

1. poner verde a alguien

2. ponía verde al gobierno de la nación

Answer 9

1. to bad mouth s.o ie talk badly about

2. he would bad mouth the nation´s government

Question 10

1. ponerse de punta en blanco
2. Su mujer, de punta en blanco, con tacones y …
3. buscaba su principe azul.

Answer 10

1. to be dressed to the nines ie very elegant
2. his woman, dressed to the nines, with high heels and …
3. looking for her prince charming

Question 11

1. poner negra

2. A Rosa la ponía negra ese tipo de vida

Answer 11

1. To put in a bad mood, to get down

2. That way of living got Rosa down

Question 12

1. ponerse rojo

2. Rosa se puso rojo

Answer 12

1. to get mad

2. Rosa got mad

Question 13

1. ponerse morado de
2. nos pusimos morados de bombones
3. me puse morada de sangría

Answer 13

1. to stuff oneself (food and drink)
2. we gorged ourselves on chocolate
3. I drank gallons of sangria

Question 14

1. asomarse por algo

2. se asomó por la ventana

Answer 14

1. to lean out of something

2. he leaned out the window

Question 15

se le acabaron los LIENZOS

Answer 15

she ran out of canvases (for painting)

Question 16

1. a partir de ese momento Rosa empezó a ver ….
2. optomism
3. verlo todo de color de rosa

Answer 16

1. from that moment on Rosa began to see …
2. What is pink the colour of _
3. to see things through rose tinted spectacles

Question 17

1. it used to be a put down
2. It is the gallego diminutive of Maria, when everyone was called Maria this, Maria that
3. a housewife ie do all the cleaning, all the cooking eg soy maruja en los fines de semanas

Answer 17

1. What did it used to mean to call someone una maruja
2. How did it come about?
3. What does it mean now?