🌺 Idioms with colours 🌼
1️⃣ 🇬🇧 have green fingers / 🇺🇸 have a green thumb - the ability to make plants grow
🍀 You clearly have green fingers!
❗️You can also use the adjectives 🇬🇧 green fingered / 🇺🇸 green thumbed
It’s the perfect present for a green-thumbed friend!
2️⃣ give the green light to something - to give permission for someone to do something or for something to happen
The council has given the green light to the new shopping centre.
✏️ permission - разрешение
✏️ council - совет (как орган)
3️⃣ green with envy - wishing very much that you had what someone else has
When I heard about his new job I was green with envy.
Rebecca’s going to Italy for two weeks and we’re all green with envy in the office!
4️⃣ once in a blue moon - not very often
🌜 My sister lives in Alaska, so I only see her once in a blue moon.
5️⃣ out of the blue - if something happens out of the blue, it is completely unexpected
🌜One day, out of the blue, she announced that she was leaving.
6️⃣ until you are blue in the face - if you say or shout something until you are blue in the face, you are wasting your efforts because you will get no results
✏️ waste efforts - напрасно тратить усилия
🌜You can tell her to clean her room until you are blue in the face, but she won't do it.
7️⃣ see red - to become very angry
😡 People who don't finish a job really make me see red.
8️⃣ be like a red rag to a bull - to be certain to produce an angry or violent reaction
✏️ be certain - быть уверенным
✏️ violent reaction - яростная реакция, раздражённая реакция
😡 Don't tell him you're a vegetarian - it's like a red rag to a bull.
9️⃣ be in the red - if you or your bank account are in the red, you owe money to the bank
✏️ owe - быть должным, быть в долгу
💰This is the airline’s fourth straight year in the red.
✏️ straight year - год подряд
1️⃣0️⃣ catch somebody red-handed - to find someone in the act of doing something illegal
✏️ illegal - незаконный
⛓ Earl was caught red-handed taking the money.
1️⃣1️⃣ roll out the red carpet (for someone) - to give a guest special treatment
✏️ special treatment - особое обращение
😁 New York rolled out the red carpet for the astronauts.
🤓 Let's practice! Make your own sentences with these idioms.👇