Color IdiomsWith

Princess Mona

I’m green with envy

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

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

be yellow

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

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

feeling blue

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."

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

Saw red

Meaning & Origin

• Became furious• related to a bull seeing a red flag (as in a bull

fight), and charging it.

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

Paint the town red

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."

Dialog

• Sara: today I got the acceptance from the Bu admission office

• Dana: wow lets paint the town red

In the pink

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

Dialog

• Sharon: did you go to health works today?• Mona: yea ,I go there every day in order to

stay in the pink