Ex. Match the following colour idioms with their definitions. Good luck!

A) see red 1) think of everything or judge everything as

either good or bad
B) black and blue 2) the perfect chance
C) once in a blue moon 3) unaware
D) paint the town red 4) feel slightly ill
E) white lie 5) bruised and beaten
F) red herring 6) very pleased and appreciative
G)in black and white 7) successful or profitable
H) black sheep 8) an airplane flight that takes off after midnight
I) catch sb red-handed 9) in debt
J) green eyes 10) to lose consciousness
K) have green fingers 11) to happen very suddenly and unexpectedly
L) have the blues 12) a harmless lie (told to be polite or to do
something not seriously wrong)
M) in the red 13) official or bureaucratic tasks
N) out of the blue 14) to be bored, annoyed at something
O) true colors 15) an unimportant fact, idea, event, etc. that
takes people’s attention away from the important
ones
P) with flying colors 16) very rarely
Q) red tape 17) be skillful at gardening
R) tickled pink 18) a person who is a disgrace or embarrassment
to a family or group
S) red eye 19) to censor something
T) in the dark 20) someone’s real character
U)golden opportunity 21) be sad or depressed
V) to black out 22) to react with uncontrollable rage against
someone or something
W) in the black 23) to be jealous
X) to blue pencil sth 24) to catch someone in the act of committing a
crime, usually a theft
Y) to be browned off 25) with great success, with distinction
Z) to be off color 26) go out and party and have a good time

Idioms
An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words. For example, to
have your feet on the ground is an idiom meaning to be sensible.