Monday, April 14, 2008

Color Idioms
  • See Pink Elephants:

-to see things which are not really there because they are only in your imagination

The man was seeing pink elephants according to those who listened to his story.

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Well, let’s see… Pink Elephant with an attitude?

  • Tickled Pink :


- to be very pleased or delighted by someone or something

My mother was tickled pink that you visited her when you were in town.

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We are unable to find an exact match for: tickled pink cocktail. the following results matched at least one search term.

  • Green with envy:


- To be very jealous, to be full of envy

I was green with envy when I heard that my cousin would be going to London for a week

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Welcome to Seth green with envy...

  • In The Red:


- to be in debt, to be unprofitable

The company has been in the red for three years now.

Website: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/clintons-february-fec-filings/

Bear in mind, not only is Hillary in the red, but McCain’s campaign went broke this past ...

  • Red-eye:


- An airplane flight that leaves late at night and arrives early in the morning

We caught the red-eye flight last night and we are very tired today.

Website:http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2081.html

Ambition is the enemy after a long red-eye flight. Keep your plans for that first day as simple as possible.

4 comments:

Ely Boi said...

Green with envy
that's great... I never heard thz before...
Your blog also looks so clearly and pretty cool
but actually I dont know who u r :P:D

kalvin huang said...

Your website is very clear and easy to read your idioms

Nice work ^^

AND U CHOOSE "COLORS" IDIOMS IN THIS TIME, LET ME CAN FIGUE OUT SOME IDOIMS ABOUT COLOR, ITS VERY USEFUL :D NICE

THE FIRST ONE IS INTERESTING

THANKS FOR SHARING

unconscious said...

See Pink Elephants

Good!!

I like this one.

=)

AZUL said...

Hi! I like color idioms are very funny. I'm green w/ envy, because my classmate find very good English expression :(