Color Idioms Figurative Meaning
Read Time: 8 min Every culture has idioms — a phrase that has become commonly recognized for their figurative rather than literal meaning — that can quickly convey meaning with just a few words.
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Read Time: 8 min Every culture has idioms — a phrase that has become commonly recognized for their figurative rather than literal meaning — that can quickly convey meaning with just a few words.
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The blue hour is the gift of the magical time between the day and evening when there is a remarkable quality of light when there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness.
Read Time: < 1 minute Do you know what this traffic signal inspired idiom means?
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Read Time: 2 min A black moon is not as well known as a blue moon but occurs just about as often. Find out when you can next see this colorful phenomenon.
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Read Time: 2 min In order to get something done you may have to cut through red tape. Here is why such a frustrating hindrance is associated with red.
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Read Time: 2 min Greenhorn, a popular term in the Old West, originally meant new. Today it has a broader meaning and is often considered to be a derogatory term.
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Read Time: 2 min Discover the link between these two color idioms — blue blood and silver spoon – and learn why an aristocrats blood is blue.
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Read Time: < 1 minute If someone tells you that today is a red letter day, they mean it’s a day of importance, such as a holiday or anniversary. But why “red letter?”
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Read Time: < 1 minute Today yellow journalism means irresponsible, exaggerated, lurid, and even slanderous reporting, a definition that hasn’t strayed far from the original meaning.
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Read Time: 2 min Why use the color white to denote a lie that – while it is an untruth – is kinder than the truth? The answer is in the meaning of the word white.
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Read Time: 2 min A brownout is something that many of us have experienced, yet we may not have known the term.
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Read Time: 2 min White elephant meaning includes both honor and disgrace. How did something cherished in one country become so loathed in another?
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Read Time: 3 min Many credit Shakespeare with inventing the idea of green with envy but a Greek beat him to it by more than 2,000 years.
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Read Time: 2 min A blue moon happens only rarely. Find out what exactly a blue moon is and when you can see this amazing color phenomenon.
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