Colours-'Pink', 'Brown', 'Grey', 'Yellow', 'Purple' Idioms

In the pink (of condition): in very good health.

Tickle somebody pink/to death: please/entertain somebody very much.

Tickled pink/to death: be pleased or entertained very much.

Rose pink and salmon pink are variations of the color pink.

Be in brown study: be in deep thought.

Do something up brown: to do something just right.

 

Get grey hair: get a big send-off, to have one’s hair turn grey from stress or frustration.

Give somebody grey hair: cause somebody great stress and frustration.

Grey area: an area of a subject that is difficult to put into a particular category, as it is not clearly defined.

Grey beard: old man.

Grey headed: old, of long service.

Yellow fever: tropical disease, causing the skin to turn yellow.

Yellow press: gutter press

Yellow bellied: coward

Show the yellow card.

Become/go/be purple with rage: be/become very angry.

Born in the purple: member of a royal family.