Colors
Color is an important part of human expression. And I believe everyone have their own favorite colors. Girls are so obsess with their favorite colors. They likely to shape themselves from head to toe. I remember some of my schoolmates in Mersing. Fiza and Rean likes purple, Mira and Fidi likes pink, Myra likes red, Dayah likes orange. Fit and Ila likes yellow and have most of their things in yellow. They have yellow bags, yellow wrapping paper, yellow scissor, yellow stationeries, yellow toiletries, yellow pages?? Huhu.. They even have the exactly same yellow baju kurung.
I like purple, and have purple shirts, purple tumbler, purple pencil case, and purple blanket. But I prefer black, white or grey for my shoes, watch and handbags. Those colors suit in most of other shirts and it’s convenience to mix and match your clothes.
Last Saturday me and mom went to Jusco Bukit Tinggi, on our way back home I found a house that attract most of the people passerby and I managed to snap a picture of that house. Can you imagine there are people such as the house owner who painted his house with purple color and also have a purple van? At least I’m not fanatic about purple. It’s weird and rare.
Talk about color, I do some research from the internet about color in idioms. Hey, who says a post-graduate software engineering student won’t have an interest in idioms and poetry? At least, I do and Sabrina too (my best friends at uni).
Below are some of the idioms
BLACK sheep of the family
MEANING: a person who is a disgrace or embarrassment to a family or group
EXAMPLE: The man is the black sheep in his family and is the only member who has not had a successful career and life.
A WHITE lie
MEANING: a harmless lie (told to be polite or to do something not seriously wrong)
EXAMPLE: I told my boss a white lie and said that I was sick yesterday when actually I wasn’t.
To be BROWNED off
MEANING: to be bored, annoyed at something
EXAMPLE: I’m browned off with this place, there is nothing to do here.
A GREY area
MEANING: a subject or problem that people do not know how to deal with because there are no clear rules
EXAMPLE: The legal difference between negligence and recklessness is a bit of a grey area.
Once in a BLUE moon
MEANING: to occur extremely rarely or only once in a life-time
EXAMPLE: My uncle lives in Canada and he only comes to see us once in a blue moon, maybe every two or three years if we’re lucky.
Grass is always GREENER on the other side
MEANING: a place that is far away or different seems better than where we are now
EXAMPLE: He realized that the grass is always greener on the other side when he saw that his new job wasn’t perfect and had its own problems too.
To catch someone RED-handed
MEANING: to catch someone in the act of committing a crime, usually a theft
EXAMPLE: The manager caught the new employee red-handed taking money out of the cash box
Tickled PINK
MEANING: be very pleased, thrilled, delighted
EXAMPLE: She was tickled pink that you made the effort to go and visit her when you were in town.
Born to the PURPLE
MEANING: being born in a royal or aristocratic family
EXAMPLE: Prince Williams was born to the purple and he is destined to live in the public eye.
YELLOW-bellied
MEANING: extremely timid, cowardly
EXAMPLE: You are a load of yellow-bellied fools, too frightened to stand up for what you believe in.
Apples and ORANGES
MEANING: if two people or things are apples and oranges, they are completely different
EXAMPLE: You can’t compare inner city schools and schools in the suburbs, they are apples and oranges.
A GOLDEN handshake
MEANING: a large sum of money paid to a retiring manager or director, or to a redundant worker
EXAMPLE: The company chairman received a huge golden handshake on retiring.
Every clouds has a SILVER lining
MEANING: there is something good even in an unpleasant situation
EXAMPLE: People sometimes say that every cloud has a silver lining to comfort somebody who’s having problems. They mean that it is always possible to get something positive out of a situation, no matter how unpleasant, difficult or even painful it might seem.
With flying COLORS
MEANING: with great success, with distinction.
EXAMPLE: We were all expecting him to fail, but he passed with flying colors.
p/s: can’t find any of orange color idioms, instead of orange the fruit.
