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Showing (One’s) True Colors

Revealing One’s True Character

Demonstrating One’s True Personality


Be Colorless

Be Boring

Having No Personality


With Flying Colors

Great Success

With Distinction


To Be Yellow

To Be A Coward

Exhibiting Cowardly Behavior


Golden Opportunity

Excellent Opportunity

Perfect Chance


Golden Boy (Girl)

Favored Person

Teacher’s (Boss’s, Parent’s) Pet

Person Who Does Everything Right & Nothing Wrong.


To See Red

To Be AngryTo Feel FuriousTo Be EnragedTo Be Mad


Painting The Town Red

Going Out And Spending Money

Going Partying

Binging


Red Neck

Uneducated Or Ignorant person

Farmer

Hick


Caught Red Handed

Caught Doing Something

Seen Committing A Misdeed


Not Having One Red Cent

Having No Money

Being Broke

Being Tapped Out


Red Letter Day

Terrific Day

Awesome Occurrence


Out Of The Blue

Occurring Unexpectedly

Surprising Occurrence

Unanticipated Event


Cursing A Blue Streak

Swear Extensively

Curse Loudly And Rapidly


Blue-collar Worker

Manual Laborer

Factory Worker

Uneducated Worker


Boys In Blue

Police Force

Police Officers


Once In A Blue Moon

Rare Occurrence

Not Very Often

Unusual Happening


Singing The Blues

Depressed

Unhappy

Moping


Wearing Rose-colored Glasses

Being Optimistic

Always Seeing The Best, Never The Worst


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


Tickled Pink

Extremely happy

Thrilled

Ecstatic


Black Sheep

Family Member Behaving Badly

Someone Rejected From A Group

Unaccepted Person


Pot Calling Kettle Black

An offender of an action

speaking badly of someone doing a similar

action


Brown Noser

Flatters others excessively for selfish motives

Says or does whatever necessary to make others happy


Giving The Green Light

Giving Permission

Say Yes

Go Forward


Green-eyed Monster

JealousySee…

Feel .. Date with…

Experience Jealousy

thegreen-eyed

monster


Green Thumb

Successful Grower

Capable of Growing


Green Around The Gills

Appear Sick

Look ILL

Look Awful


White Lie

An Insignificant Lie

Small Untruth

Unimportant Deceit


White As A Sheet

Very Pale

Terrified

Deathly


Raise The White Flag

Admitting Defeat

Giving Up

Surrender


Let’s Practice

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Every Tuesday, she wrote me out of the blue.

Is the idiom is being used correctly or incorrectly??


Last year, she wrote me out of the blue.



Smelling liver makes me green around the gills.



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



I can grow anything because I have a green thumb.



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?



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



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



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



Is he the golden boy because he continuously brown noses?



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



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



I saw red when he

remembered my

birthday.



I saw red when he

forgot my

birthday.



Getting a pink slip right before Christmas is no fun.



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



I failed the test with flying colors.



I passed the test with flying colors.



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



I really like that teacher because she is so colorless.



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



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



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



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



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



That job interview was a golden opportunity for me.



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