English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

bluey green, reddish brown.
Colour metaphors
blue = depression (to feel blue); physical or unskilled (blue-collar workers)
red = anger (to see red = to be very angry); danger (red alert, a red flag); special importance
(All the competitors were given the 
red-carpet treatment. The day we met will always be a red-
letter day for me.); communist or very left-wing in politics (People’s views sometimes become less 
red as they get older.)
green = nausea (to look green) (People who are seasick often turn/go green and sometimes vomit.); 
envy (She turned 
green with envy when she saw her friend’s new car.); care for the environment 
(
green tourism; the Green Party)
black = depressing or without hope (a black future); anger (to look as black as thunder); illegality 
or incorrectness (
black market, black sheep of the family, black mark) (During the war people 
bought many goods illegally on the 
black market. If I don’t finish this report in time, that’ll be 
another 
black mark against my name. My brother was the black sheep of the family, leaving 
school and home at the earliest opportunity.)
grey = lack of clarity (a grey area); brains (grey matter, grey cells)
white = purity (white as snow, whiter than white); being pale (She was so shocked that she went 
white as a sheet.); a white-knuckle 
[terrifying]
ride at an amusement park such as Disneyland; 
office workers (
white-collar workers)
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scarlet
shocking pink
crimson
ginger

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