Today we have one of our favourite topics… Idioms!
Can you work out which of the 2 options make these English idioms about colours correct? Answers will be coming soon so keep visiting the page to see if you are right!
The black sheep/black horse is somebody who behaves very differently or badly, and is considered shameful by other members of their family.
If something happens out of the blue/out of the purple, it happens very suddenly or unexpectedly.
If you are greened off/browned off, you are bored or fed up.
The most important thing to remember when doing something is called the golden rule/golden law.
A person who is blue with envy/green with envy is someone who is very jealous.
To be tickled pink/licked pink, means are very happy about something.
If you paint the town gold/paint the town red, you go out and have a really good time in bars and clubs.
A silver lining/silver rain refers to the good or pleasant side-effects of an unpleasant situation.
A pink elephant/white elephant, is something that is useless even though it might cost a lot of money.
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