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Colours

what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:

green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
....
Regards,
Pawe³
Warsaw, Poland
  

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[nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around youuse most often? [/nq] he went white as a sheet or red as a beetroot yellow or yellow-bellied, meaning cowardly green, meaning young, inexperienced green, meaning jealous or envious purple prose - rather florid, wordy or over the top he ate peeled an orange and ate it slowly :-) I've got the blues or I'm feeling blue. red tape - bureaucracy red letter day - a special day

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  • [nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around youuse most often?
  • [/nq] he went white as a sheet or red as a beetroot yellow or yellow-bellied, meaning cowardly green, meaning young, inexperienced green, meaning jealous or envious purple prose - rather florid, wordy or over the top he ate peeled an orange and ate it slowly :-) I've got the blues or I'm feeling blue.
  • red tape - bureaucracy red letter day - a special day
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[nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around youuse most often? out of the blue (with the or without?)definitely with "the".[/nq]
he went white as a sheet or red as a beetroot
yellow or yellow-bellied, meaning cowardly
green, meaning young, inexperienced
green, meaning jealous or envious
purple prose - rather florid, wordy or over the top he ate pee
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[nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use most often? if I am asked I ... at once: green fingers paint the town red caught red-handed out of the blue (with the or without?) blue eye[/nq]
Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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[nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you use most often? if I am asked I ... paint the town red caught red-handed out of the blue (with the or without?) blue eye deep blue sea ..[/nq]
these spring immediately to mind...
feeling blue, 'the blues'
pull a whitey
have an orange
on the green
a bit green
in the black/red
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[nq:1]these spring immediately to mind... feeling blue, 'the blues' pull a whitey have an orange on the green a bit green in the black/red[/nq]
I'm not sure whether "have an orange" or "on the green" count, since they refer to objects rather than to colours. (Admittedly the objects in question are named after their colours.)

John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in
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[nq:1]Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".[/nq]^^
I'll have some of what you're drinking, Einde, please!

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (Email Removed) "I don't think you're in the top class when it comes to thinking - I suspect I could wade through the depths of your mind and not wet my ankles." Peter Thomas, in
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[nq:2]Are you sure you don't mean "black eye"? I ask because the German for balck eye transltews literally as "blue eye".[/nq]
^^
[nq:1]I'll have some of what you're drinking, Einde, please![/nq]
Unfortunately I was stone cold sober. It comes from typing too fast and hitting the send button before you reread the text. :-(

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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[nq:1]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around youuse most often?[/nq]
To scream blue murder (to make a big fuss)
To turn the air blue, or the air turned blue (with oaths, sometimes purple) A red herring, which is a diversion, particularly a misleading one. Blue sky thinking (yuk).
Red lorry, yellow lorry or red leather, yellow leather (tongue twister). Red h
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[nq:2]what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you[/nq]
[nq:1]use[/nq]
[nq:2]most often?[/nq]
[nq:1]Go for gold (the centre of an archery target).[/nq]
I thought this had more to do with attempting to win a gold medal. IIRC the centre of an archery target is black.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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[nq:2]Go for gold (the centre of an archery target).[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought this had more to do with attempting to win a gold medal. IIRC the centre of an archery target is black.[/nq]
Not being an archer I was quite prepared to believe that I was wrong but a quick Google for archery targets shows them all with yellow (known as gold) centre, unless there is a tiny black dot at the centre whi
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definitely black, you are right. My mistake
Pawel
Uzytkownik "Einde O'Callaghan" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci
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