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It's a colorful world - index!

Colorful idioms used in English
This page ©2000 by Nicholas E. Miller


Colorful English!
blackbrownredorangeyellowgreenbluevioletgraywhite
black and blue
black diamond
black dwarf

black friar
black gold
black hole
black lung
Black Mass
black out
in the black
japan black
brown
brown Betty
brown dwarf
brown bagging
brown lung
brown rice
brown rot
brown sauce
brown study
brown sugar
brownie
Brownie point
brownnose
brownout
brownshirt
brownstone
hash browns
in the red
redneck
red alert
red blood cell
red heat
red herring
red hot
red tape
orangey yellow (coward)
yellow fever
yellow jacket
Yellow Pages
Yellow Peril
green
green around the gills
green card
green flash
green light
green revolution
green room
green thumb
greens fee
greenback
greenbelt
green-eyed
greengrocer
greenhorn
greenhouse
greenhouse effect
greenmail
greenstick fracture
putting green
black and blue
blue (depressed)
blue chip
blue collar
blue book
blue blood
Bluegrass music
blue in the face
blue law
out of the blue
Gentian Violet
shrinking violet
Earl Grey tea
gray(depressing)
gray market
gray matter
grey friar
white blood cell
white bread
white chip
white chocolate
white elephant
white flag
white friar
white gas
white gold
white goods
white heat
white hole
white rice
white sauce
white sugar
white-collar
colorpink tan khaki silver gold
color blind
colored (NAACP)
off color
local color
turn color
with flying colors
in the pink
pinkeye
pink elephants
Pink Lady
pink slip
Pinko
pink-collar
tickled pink
tan Khaki silver bullet
silver certificate
silver lining
silver spoon
silver-tongued
silverfish
silverware
as good as gold
fool's gold
white gold