{"id":924,"date":"2015-11-23T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:34:37","slug":"colour-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/colour-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of colour idioms. Each idiom is followed by its meaning\/definition and example sentences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black out:<\/strong> loss of electricity; complete darkening of a room when lights are put out; sudden loss of memory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday\u2019s black out was due to unexpected problems with electricity production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Go green with envy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To go green with envy is to be very jealous of objects belonging to other people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susie will go green with envy when she sees your new car.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Be yellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be a coward<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t expect him to come to your rescue when you are in trouble. He\u2019s yellow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Red tap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delay in public affairs because there is too much attention to rules<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot of people want to adopt babies. It is the red tape that discourages them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Black sheep<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Person of bad character<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James was neither brilliant nor hardworking. His Dad always treated him like a black sheep.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Roll out the red carpet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Give the best treatment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Mathews is going to take over as the next chairman. Be sure to roll out the red carpet when he arrives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Green belt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The countryside around a city<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are planning to buy a new home in the green belt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Black and white<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When something is black and white, it is clear, simple and understandable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The situation is not as black and white as you think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Feel blue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To feel blue is to be depressed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m feeling rather blue these days. I must really find something to cheer me up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>White lie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A small insignificant lie<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no harm in telling a white lie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Give the green light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To give the green light is to approve a project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project can\u2019t start until the government gives the green light.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of colour idioms. Each idiom is followed by its meaning\/definition and example sentences. Black out: loss of electricity; complete darkening of a room when lights are put out; sudden loss&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-colour-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}