Hello and welcome to English Grammar & Vocabulary.

You probably know that English language has a lot of idioms. And some of the idioms are based on
colours. Today we are going to learn colour based idioms and we are going to start with white color. Here
are six common white colour idioms in English.

White as a sheet.

When someone is white as a sheet, he looks very pale because of the emotion or illness.

‘She went white as a sheet when she heard the news’ Probably that’s the bad news on one of the family
members who got an accident.

He turned as white as a sheet when he saw the ghost. Who didn’t?

A white elephant

to be something (usually a building) that costs lot of money and is completely useless

‘The new office block has become an expensive white elephant.

‘That new sports centre cost a fortune and is completely useless because nothing works, it’s a white

Elephant’

To say that black is white

To say that something is true even though it obviously isn’t; to say the opposite of what is true.

‘He assured us that he had closed all the windows, but it was obvious that he’d left one of them open.
He’ll say that black is white to save himself’

To be whiter than white

To be completely honest and good, someone who never does anything bad.

‘They say he’s whiter than white, but I don’t trust him at all’

To see everything in black and white; to appear black and white

To see something in a superficial and simple way; to appear to be very simple and easy

‘things aren’t quite as black and white as they appear - that tree definitely wasn’t there yesterday’

(in) black and white

In a way that makes people or things seem completely bad or good, or completely right or wrong.

‘this is not a black and white decision’

‘it’s a complex issue, but he only sees it in black and white’

To bleed someone white

To get someone’s money by tricking them; to take everything from someone.

‘she got the house, the kid, the car and a large maintenance – she bled him white.

MUST

Must basically is an internal obligation that is felt by the person who is talking. It is like saying ‘I felt it is
necessary to do it’

Let’s see some examples

‘I must stop smoking’ When I say ‘I must stop smoking’, It means ‘I felt it is necessary for me to stop
smoking because it is bad for my health.’

"You must get up by 5am", which means "I think it is necessary that you get up by 5am because your job
starts at 7

"She must stop talking like that’ which means "I think it is necessary that she stops talking like that
because it sounds rude.

HAVE TO or HAVE GOT TO

On the other hand, HAVE TO or HAVE GOT TO is an external obligation that comes from another person
or an authority. It can also be related to a law, a rule or an agreement.

Let's look at some examples:

I have got to see the doctor. When I say ‘I have got to see the doctor’, I have an appointment to see the
doctor so I have to go"

'She has got to get her hair cut now, she's in the army.’ The sentence ‘She has got to get her hair now,
she’s in the army’ means that a rule in the army says that it is an obligatory for someone who joins the
army.

‘You've got to take your passport when you go abroad.’ This sentence means that you have to take your
passport with you because there is a law that makes this obligatory for someone who goes abroad.’
Well, Liston I hope that answered your question. Just to let you know that in fact the difference between
these two words MUST and HAVE TO or HAVE GOT TO not so important in the sense that any English
speaker would understand what you are saying with "must" or have to"

I will put some grammar exercises related to this question at the end of the video so you can practice.

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