Do you want to develop a colourful vocabulary? Learn the meanings of these seven phrases, and you can start using them in your everyday life. I chose these examples of idioms because of how useful they are at home, in the workplace, and at school. These expressions are commonly used in spoken English. Watch this lesson, and add some decoration to your English! Take the quiz here:
Idiom list:
see through rose-tinted glasses
give someone the green light
with flying colors
tickled pink
paint the town red
blue-collared / white-collared
see things in black and white
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome back to engVid. My name’s Adam. Nice to see you again. Today’s lesson is about idioms. Everybody loves to learn new idioms because they’re used every day. Sometimes they’re a little bit hard to understand. Today, we’re looking at colourful idioms, idioms that use colour in their expression. Before I begin, “colourful“, you’ll notice I used “u“. I’m Canadia