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Showing (One’s) True Colors

Revealing One’s True Character

Demonstrating One’s True Personality

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Be Colorless

Be Boring

Having No Personality

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With Flying Colors

Great Success

With Distinction

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To Be Yellow

To Be A Coward

Exhibiting Cowardly Behavior

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Golden Opportunity

Excellent Opportunity

Perfect Chance

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Golden Boy (Girl)

Favored Person

Teacher’s (Boss’s, Parent’s) Pet

Person Who Does Everything Right & Nothing Wrong.

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To See Red

To Be AngryTo Feel FuriousTo Be EnragedTo Be Mad

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Painting The Town Red

Going Out And Spending Money

Going Partying

Binging

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Red Neck

Uneducated Or Ignorant person

Farmer

Hick

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Caught Red Handed

Caught Doing Something

Seen Committing A Misdeed

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Not Having One Red Cent

Having No Money

Being Broke

Being Tapped Out

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Red Letter Day

Terrific Day

Awesome Occurrence

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Out Of The Blue

Occurring Unexpectedly

Surprising Occurrence

Unanticipated Event

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Cursing A Blue Streak

Swear Extensively

Curse Loudly And Rapidly

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Blue-collar Worker

Manual Laborer

Factory Worker

Uneducated Worker

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Boys In Blue

Police Force

Police Officers

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Once In A Blue Moon

Rare Occurrence

Not Very Often

Unusual Happening

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Singing The Blues

Depressed

Unhappy

Moping

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Wearing Rose-colored Glasses

Being Optimistic

Always Seeing The Best, Never The Worst

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Pink Slip

Notice of being laid off or let

go (fired) from the job, usually

because of the company’sfinancial difficulties not the employee’s poor performance

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Tickled Pink

Extremely happy

Thrilled

Ecstatic

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Black Sheep

Family Member Behaving Badly

Someone Rejected From A Group

Unaccepted Person

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Pot Calling Kettle Black

An offender of an action

speaking badly of someone doing a similar

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Brown Noser

Flatters others excessively for selfish motives

Says or does whatever necessary to make others happy

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Giving The Green Light

Giving Permission

Say Yes

Go Forward

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Green-eyed Monster

JealousySee…

Feel .. Date with…

Experience Jealousy

thegreen-eyed

monster

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Green Thumb

Successful Grower

Capable of Growing

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Green Around The Gills

Appear Sick

Look ILL

Look Awful

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White Lie

An Insignificant Lie

Small Untruth

Unimportant Deceit

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White As A Sheet

Very Pale

Terrified

Deathly

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Raise The White Flag

Admitting Defeat

Giving Up

Surrender

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Let’s Practice

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Every Tuesday, she wrote me out of the blue.

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Every Tuesday, she wrote me out of the blue.

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Last year, she wrote me out of the blue.

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Smelling liver makes me green around the gills.

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Smelling liver makes me green around the gills.

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I can’t grow anything because I have a green thumb.

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I can’t grow anything because I have a green thumb.

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I can grow anything because I have a green thumb.

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Jeff cheated on his history test, yet he told me I was wrong to speed. That is definitely the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?

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Jeff cheated on his history test, yet he told me I was wrong to speed. That is definitely the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?

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When she saw the final bill, she turned white as a sheet.

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When she saw the final bill, she turned white as a sheet.

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As a pessimist, I look at the world through rose colored glasses.

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As a pessimist, I look at the world through rose colored glasses.

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As a optimist, I look at the world through rose colored glasses.

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Is he the golden boy because he continuously brown noses?

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Since I work in an office, I could be considered a blue collar worker.

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Since I work in an office, I could be considered a blue collar worker.

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Since I work in a factory, I could be considered a blue collar worker.

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I saw red when he

remembered my

birthday.

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I saw red when he

remembered my

birthday.

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I saw red when he

forgot my

birthday.

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Getting a pink slip right before Christmas is no fun.

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Getting a pink slip right before Christmas is no fun.

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When I got laid off, I started singing the blues.

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When I got laid off, I started singing the blues.

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I failed the test with flying colors.

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I failed the test with flying colors.

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I passed the test with flying colors.

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Sooner or later, the students will reveal their true colors.

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Sooner or later, the students will reveal their true colors.

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I really like that teacher because she is so colorless.

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I really like that teacher because she is so colorless.

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I really don’t like that teacher because she is so colorless.

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Don’t lie to me about the error! I caught you red handed.

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Don’t lie to me about the error! I caught you red handed.

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I can’t go out to lunch with you since I don’t have one red cent.

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I can’t go out to lunch with you since I don’t have one red cent.

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I grew up in LA so I am really a redneck.

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I grew up in LA so I am really a redneck.

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I grew up in LA so I am not really a redneck.

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That job interview was a golden opportunity for me.

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That job interview was a golden opportunity for me.

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