Color Idioms

CHSE 2013

Color Idioms
Write the idioms with the following meanings:
1. Owe money to the bank because you have spent more than you have in your account.
2. Try to do something as hard and as long as you possibly can but without success.
3. To scream loudly for a long time especially in order to protest against something.
4. Official rules that seem more complicated than necessary and prevent things from
being done quickly.
5. Good at making plants grow.

Fill in the blanks with the right idiom:
1. You can argue till you're blue in the ____________, but you won't change my mind.
2. A good leader cannot be vague in his statements or convictions. He has to nail
____________________ mast while speaking.
3. Both the brothers of Rahman have earned a lot and helped their old parents. But
Rahman spoiled all the inherited wealth. He is the ________________________ of the
family.
4. Mariam turned as ____________ as a sheet when the policeman told her that her son
had been in a car wreck.
5. CHSE will commence its modernisation process as soon as it gets the _______________
light from the Ministry of Education.

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Color Idioms

CHSE 2013

Match the following idioms with their meanings given in the right column.

White lie

A You are afraid of something

Catch red-handed

vote against you and exclude you from list of

borrowers

Come out of the

blue

A harmless untrue statement told just to make

somebody happy or to avoid hurting

Browned off

D be depressed

In the black

To become very angry

Black look

Comes without any warning

Black ball

G bored, unhappy and or annoyed

Be yellow

H Shows somebody is angry with you

Feel blue

Have some money

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See red

Be caught while committing a crime

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