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C o l o r I d i o m s

C o l o r I d i o m s. W i th P r i n c e s s M o n a. I’m green with envy. Meaning & Origin. Very j ealous

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C o l o r I d i o m s

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  1. Color Idioms With Princess Mona

  2. I’m green with envy

  3. Meaning & Origin • Very jealous • In antiquity, the Hebrew word for envy, qinah, referred to the burning color in the face produced by a deep emotion. The Greeks believed that jealousy was accompanied by an overproduction of bile, lending a yellowish-green pallor to the victim’s complexion • The most famous such reference and the origin of the term “green-eyed monster” is Iago’s speech in Shakespeare’s Othello

  4. Dialog • Sharon: you have the highest degree in the this class • Mona: really!!!! • Sharon: yes you did ,all your classmates will be green with envy

  5. be yellow

  6. Meaning & Origin • Be coward • Yellow has always been associated with treachery, cowardice • In France, the doors of traitor’s houses are painted with bright yellow

  7. Dialog • Sharon: let’s go ride the roller coaster • Kevin:no I’m so scared • Sharon: don’t be yellow Kevin you can do it • Kevin: okay

  8. feeling blue

  9. Meaning & Origin • Feeling Sad and dejected • coined from a custom among many old deepwater sailing ships. If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her entire hull when returning to home port."

  10. Dialog • John: did u get your April session evaluation • Sara: yeah but I feel blue about it • John: why ? was it that bad • Sara : yes it was

  11. Saw red

  12. Meaning & Origin • Became furious • related to a bull seeing a red flag (as in a bull fight), and charging it.

  13. Dialog • John: did you see the game for Boston Celtics last night? • Gake : yea I got saw red when they didn’t win • John :yea me too

  14. Paint the town red

  15. Meaning & Origin • Lets go out and have a wild time • In the nineteenth century the section of town where brothels and saloons were located was known as the 'red light district.' So a group of lusty cowhands out for a night 'on the town' might very well take it into their heads to make the whole town red."

  16. Dialog • Sara: today I got the acceptance from the Bu admission office • Dana: wow lets paint the town red

  17. In the pink

  18. Meaning & Origin • In perfect condition, especially of health • From the association between 'the pink of condition' and the healthily glowing pink cheeks of new-born babies or energetic sportsmen/sportswomen and the like

  19. Dialog • Sharon: did you go to health works today? • Mona: yea ,I go there every day in order to stay in the pink

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