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10 August 2006: Colour Idioms

Monday is a bank holiday here in Britain and everyone is hoping that the weather will be good so we can work in our gardens, go for walks or just enjoy the fact that spring is here at last.

Exercise
We're going to look at colour idioms this week. See if you can match the meanings with the correct idioms.
Drag-and-drop your chosen answer into one of the spaces below. Only use each answer once.
red tape
to be the black sheep
a red herring
a red letter day
to tell a white lie
out of the blue
to have green fingers
a white elephant
once in a blue moon
to be green with envy
MeaningsIdioms
1:a number of official rules and regulations which seem unnecessary
2:a very special and happy occasion
3:to be very good at gardening
4:very, very infrequently
5:to be very jealous of somebody
6:something that takes the attention away from the subject being discussed
7:the person in the family who is thought of as being very bad/naughty
8:to say something which is not true because you do not want to make the person unhappy
9:something which cost a lot of money but isn't really very useful
10:unexpected
Drag-and-drop your chosen answer into one of the spaces below. Only use each answer once.
red tape
to be the black sheep
a red herring
a red letter day
to tell a white lie
out of the blue
to have green fingers
a white elephant
once in a blue moon
to be green with envy

The proverb this week is: You can't teach an old dog new tricks. It means that it is difficult for older people to learn new skills and different ways of doing things.

Have a good week,
Love from Harriet and everyone at English in Chester


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