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Go as white as a sheet : devenir blême, pâlir (visage)
The news must've been bad. She went as white as a sheet when she read the telegram.
White coffee : Café au lait, café crème...
- Do you want white or black coffee? - White please. Well, dark brown, actually - just a dash of milk.
A white-collar worker : un employé de bureau, col blanc.
A blue-collar worker : un ouvrier,travailleur manuel, col bleu
He hopes to get a white-collar job, though, with his level of education, he'll be lucky to get a blue-collar one.
Réponse: Colours in idioms de mp27, postée le 11-07-2007 à 03:21:05 (S | E)
PURPLE
-- to turn purple = devenir rouge de colère
-- (Litt) purple prose = style ampoulé, excessivement imagé, élaboré
-- (Litt) purple passage/patch = morceau de bravoure, passage ampoulé
-- to be born to/in the purple = naître dans une famille royale.
Réponse: Colours in idioms de ariane6, postée le 11-07-2007 à 12:48:44 (S | E)
Silver
the silver screen : le cinema
Cary Grant and Clark Gable were great stars of the silver screen.
Gold
There are so many interesting stories about the stars of Hollywood's golden age.
golden age : l'age d'or
Réponse: Colours in idioms de iry43, postée le 13-07-2007 à 18:08:40 (S | E)
WHITE
-- The white of the eyes ==> Le blanc des yeux
-- White-hot ==> Chauffé à blanc
-- White éléphant ==> Réalisation coûteuse , peu rentable.
BLACK & WHITE
-- He sees everything in black and white ==> Avec lui c'est tout l'un, ou tout l'autre.
BLACK
-- The future is looking black ==> L'avenir est sombre
-- To give sb a black look ==> Jeter un regard noir à qn.
-- a blackout -- to blackout ==> Évanouissement, empêcher la divulgation d'information,interrompre, plonger dans l'obscurité.
GREY
All cats are grey in the dark ==> La nuit tous les chats sont gris.
Réponse: Colours in idioms de ariane6, postée le 16-07-2007 à 02:01:12 (S | E)
Blue-chip companies are so named after the valuable chips used in gambling, a suitable metaphor for the stock market.
Bluetooth is named after the Viking king Harald Bluetooth, the man who united Denmark and Norway (short-range connectivity).
Makes sense, doesn't it?
Official documents in England used to be bound by a red or pink string, giving us today's red tape (bureaucracy).
Having your partner say the wrong thing to you can feel like a red rag to a bull (provocative).
Réponse: Colours in idioms de mp27, postée le 16-07-2007 à 02:30:50 (S | E)
GOLD
-- to be like gold dust ===> être une denrée rare
-- to eat off gold plates ===> nager dans l'opulence
-- He is as good as gold ===> Il est sage comme une image
-- She has a heart of gold ===> Elle a un coeur en or!
-- to be worth one weight in gold ===> valoir son pesant d'or
Réponse: Colours in idioms de ariane6, postée le 16-07-2007 à 13:55:34 (S | E)
Green and Yellow
My job is full of greenhorns : jeunes débutants, blanc-becs
and yellow-bellies : peureux, timides.
A green card : (carte de séjour temporaire aux E-U.) will open doors for me,
a yellow card (carton jaune) will teach me to play by the rules.
Réponse: Colours in idioms de mp27, postée le 16-07-2007 à 20:08:03 (S | E)
GOLD – GOLDEN
-- (Speech is silver), silence is gold = la parole est d'argent et le silence est d'or.-- silence is golden = le silence est d'or.-- a golden oldie = un vieux succès (chanson, film).-- to kill the golden goose = tuer la poule aux oeufs d'or.Réponse: Colours in idioms de ariane6, postée le 23-07-2007 à 14:45:26 (S | E)
--As brown as a berry : complètement brun, de couleur marron
Cette expression trouve son origine dans un conte faisant partie des fameux "Canterbury Tales" de Chaucer, (the Monk's Tale), 1386-1400:
He was a lord full fat and in good point;
His eyen stepe and rolling in his head
That stemed as a fornice of a led;
His botes souple, his hors in gret estat,
Now certainly he was a sayre prelat.
He was not pale as a forpined gost;
A fat swan loved he best of any rost;
His palfrey* was as broune as is a bery.
* a palfrey is a horse
Réponse: Colours in idioms de mp27, postée le 24-07-2007 à 02:29:46 (S | E)
Hello ariane!
Merci pour "berry".... qui a donné l'expression: as brown as a berry
Je vais continuer avec cette couleur brune.
BROWN
--> as brown as a walnut ==> de la couleur noisette
--> chocolate-brown = couleur chocolat.
--> to be in a brown study ===> être plongé dans ses pensées.....
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