Common Colour Idioms

I know that English students enjoy learning new idioms. I'm sure that over the years you have come across many of them. Today we're going to review your knowledge and hopefully teach you some new ones.

The theme of today's lesson is colour idioms (or color idioms, if you prefer American) spelling. There are lot's of examples of colour idioms in English and here are ten of them. All native English speakers will be familiar with these - are you?

I have a feeling you will all find this a difficult lesson! How many of you can prove me wrong? A big congratulations to anyone who can get 10 /10!

Clothing Idioms

Time Idioms

Ten Animal Idioms

Now complete these sentences with the correct idiom:

• 1 - When someone is good at gardening, they have '___ fingers / thumbs'.
  
  green
  brown
  yellow
  red
  
  
• 2 - When some is very envious, they are '___ with envy'.
  
  blue
  red
  black
  green
  
  
• 3 - When someone is in debt with the bank (overdrawn) they are '___ the red'.
  
  at
  to
  in
  on
  
  
• 4 - When you talk to someone who doesn't listen, you become 'blue in the ___'.
  
  face
  tongue
  head
  mouth
  
  
• 5 - When you are not aware about something, you are 'in the ___' about it.
  
  gray
  dark
  black
  white
  
  
• 6 - The bad person in a group or family is known as a 'black ___'.
  
  cheat
  chip
  sheep
  ship
  
  
• 7 - A small lie you tell to protect a person's feelings is a '___ lie'.
  
  pink
  white
  clear
  clean
  
  
• 8 - When you give something the 'green light' you are giving:
  
  time
  permission
  refusal
  money
  
  
• 9 - When someone is 'yellow' they are:
  
  young
  cowardly
  rich
  happy
  
  
• 10 - Alarge sum of money paid to a retiring worker is called a 'golden ___'.
  
  hug
  high-five
  handshake
  kiss