Nukus state pedagogical institute foreign language faculty english language and literature department

white. White-collar workers work in offices rather than doing physical work. People who work in factories, down mines, etc, are called blue-collar workers.

pink. If you are in the pink, you are healthy and happy. This is an oldfashioned expression.

grey. Your grey matter is your brain. We can also say use your head or use your loaf.

brown. If you brown-nose someone who is important or powerful, you try very hard to please them by agreeing with them all the time. This can also be a noun: a brown-noser. It is not a polite expression. A man who always agrees with his boss might be called a yes-man and is always sucking up to his boss.

34. yellow. A person who is yellow is cowardly (= not very brave). We sometimes say that a cowardly person has a yellow streak in them.

An idiom is an expression that cannot be fully understood by the meanings of the individual words that are contained within it. The meaning of the whole idiom has little, often nothing, to do with the meanings of the words taken one by one. Teachers point out to students that idioms are often used in writing or speech to make expression more colourful.

So, this part of our paper stems from a desire to comprehend the symbolic connotation of colours as they are reflected in the English language. Languages are living organisms and therefore new words and phrases are coming to life and this process is the most obvious in idiomatic expressions. This work is intended to be an attempt of representing a learning material which may facilitate the access to the English which is a language rich in idioms. Without them English would lose variety and humor, especially in speaking.

Health related idioms

To our opinion, organizing idioms on the basis of cognitive mechanisms is potentially productive in the process of learning foreign languages. The aim of this part is to analyze the English idioms denoting the human condition in health and disease. It is our belief that study of health and disease idioms from the perspective of their motivation by cognitive metaphors will disclose the underlying nature of human communication. Cognitive approach is capable of enhancing the human understanding.

Idioms appear in every language, and English has thousands of them. They are often confusing because the meaning of the whole group of words taken together has little, often nothing, to do with the meanings of the words taken one by one.
In order to understand a language, we must know what the idioms in
that language mean. If we try to figure out the meaning of an idiom
literally, word by word, we will get befuddled. We have to know its hidden meaning. Because of idioms, learning a language can be complicated. Below we give a list of some health related idioms which describe peoples’ physical conditions and examples with them:

in bad shape - A person who is in bad shape is in poor physical condition. I really am in bad shape.  I must do more exercise.