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Colours-'Green' Idioms

Be a green eyed monster: be very jealous.

Get/give somebody the green light: get/give the go-ahead, receive a signal to start or continue.

Green/pale around the gills: looking sick.

 

Be green with envy: be very jealous.

Have a green thumb/fingers: have the ability to grow plants easily.

The green belt: wide strip of land around a city, where building is controlled so that there are fields, woods etc.

(Not) be as green as one is cabbage looking: (not) be as experienced as one seems.

Green Christmas: Christmas season when the weather is mild and there is no snow.

Green horn: inexperienced and easily deceived person.

Green room: room in a theater for actors/actresses, when they are not on stage.

Green stuff: vegetables.

Green sward: turf, grass

The village green: a village’s square.

Going green: making an effort to be environmentally conscious, sustainable, and knowledgable. 

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence/hill.

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Colours-'White' Idioms

White elephant: something that is useless and which is either a nuisance or is expensive to keep up.

Be as white as a sheet: be very pale.

Be as white as the driven snow: be very white.

(Put) in black and white :put in written form.

White caps/horses: waves at sea with white foam on their crests.

White collar: non-manual labour.

White lie: unimportant and harmless lie.

White coffee: coffee with milk.

White flag: symbol of surrender.

White heat: intense passion.

White lipped: having white lips, especially of fear.

White livered: cowardly.

White meat: poultry, pork and veal.

Bleed white: drain of wealth, strength (also: bleed somebody white).

White slave: a girl who is forced to be a prostitute, especially one who is tricked into going to a foreign country by promises of employment.

Show the white feather: be very afraid of somebody.

White Hall: Street in London where are the government offices, hence British government policy.

White sepulcher: hypocrite.

White frost: hoar frost.

White wash: lime or embellishment.

Colours-'Blue' Idioms

Between the devil and the deep blue sea: between a rock and a hard place, between two fires, between a hammer and an anvil, be in a difficult position.

Be black and blue: showing signs of being physically abused.

Burn with a low blue flame: be very angry.

Come out of the blue: appear suddenly, as if from nowhere.

Get / have the blues: be sad and depressed.

Like a bolt from the blue: suddenly and without warning.

Once in a blue moon: very rarely.

Out of a clear blue sky: suddenly and without warning.

Talk a blue streak: talk very much and very rapidly.

Talk until one is blue in the face: talk until one is exhausted.

Appear from/out of the blue: suddenly and without warning.

Blue joke: improper joke.

Oxford/Cambridge/dark/light/navy blue: variations of blue.

Blue stocking: a woman who is regarded as having superior literary tastes and intellectual interests.

Blue one’s money (sl.): spend recklessly.

True blue: loyal follower

Colours - 'Red' Idioms

Like a red rug to a bull: something that infuriates somebody.

Catch somebody red-handed: catch a person in the act of doing something.

Get/give somebody the red carpet treatment: very special treatment.

Red-letter day: an important day.

Be in the red: be in debt.

Not worth a red cent: be worthless.

Be out of the red: be out of debt.

Paint the town red: have a wild celebration.

Red herring: a piece of information or suggestion introduced to draw attention from the real facts of a situation.

Be red in the face: be embarrassed.

Be as red as a beetroot: be very red.

Red tape: bureaucracy

See red: be or make somebody angry.

Red-hot: highly excited, furious.

Red ensign/duster: red flag with the union flag in one corner used by the British merchant ships.

Red meat: beef and mutton.

Red flag: symbol of danger or revolution.

Red light district:  area with houses of ill fame.

Red head: person having red hair.                         

Red coat: British soldier (old use)

Red breast: robin

To show the red card:  to be dismissed from your job.