ADVANCED VOCABULARY - IDIOMS - COLOURS

1) Helen and Mark danced gracefully and that made everyone present with envy.

2) Saturday was a -letter day for Susan. She got a lot of birthday presents from her friends.

3) Surely they'll come up with an acceptable solution if they use some matter.

4) The tracks outside the house lend to his claim that somebody tried to break in last night.

5) The news was a great shock to our family; it came absolutely out of the .

6) Mr Jones says he was kept in the about the danger posed by the explosives.

7) Business is starting to improve; this is the first time we've been in the for six months.

8) Corporations, especially Indian ones, need to worry about -collar criminals.

9) The girl students were so -bellied that they even feared their own shadows.

10) She was tickled when her old friend called her up to wish her on her birthday.

1)	be green with envy	be very jealous, envious
2)	red-letter day	a very happy or exciting day
3)	grey matter	your intelligence, or your brain
4)	lend colour to sth	to make something appear likely or true
5)	out of the blue	unexpectedly, without warning
6)	be (kept) in the dark	knowing nothing about something important
7)	be in the black	to have money in your bank account
8)	white-collar	relating to the people who work in an office
9)	yellow-bellied	not having courage, cowardly
10)	be tickled pink	be very pleased or amused

Advanced Idioms - Colours