Name: Learn English color expressions to talk about situations & emotions
Uploaded: 2018-01-08T07:03:07.000Z
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Right now I'm kind of tickled pink about the information I just got from this.

It's on answers while you sleep, lucid dreaming.

Well, today I want to tell you how in English...

Or show you in English how we use colours to talk about your mood or your emotions.

I'm sure in your own culture you use colour when you talk about something to describe

I've got six for you, and I'm going to give you basically what they mean, and I'm going

Later on I'm going to also do for you something a little else, I'll show you how we use colours

to talk about behaviour, so not just how you think or feel, but how you act.

Give you a couple of those, and then, of course, we'll have our quiz.

You're feeling a little flushed, a little blue in the face?

Let's go to the board and find out what these colours are.

So, let's start with the colour that contains everything, white.

When you are white it means you are afraid, scared.

Someone might say: "You're as white as a sheet."

The reason why they said that is because usually when we're afraid all of the blood goes from

your body, from your hands and your feet to your heart so you can run faster if you need

It doesn't matter what colour you are, funny enough, you get lighter.

People of different colours more, but generally put, it means your colour is not there because

the blood is not there, you must be afraid.

So you're as white as a sheet, like a ghost.

Let's go to the next colour, so we're going a little darker here, yellow.

When somebody calls you a yellow belly they're saying: "You're a coward."

Now, this one you're afraid because something scared you.

When you're a yellow belly, you're always afraid like a little mouse, you don't want

to get into a fight or trouble, you might get hurt.

So it means I can never depend on you when the situation is bad because you're too afraid

So, while being white means you're afraid of something that just happened, something

has scared you, this one means you have no strength.

You're the opposite of strong, you're weak.

You're a coward, you're afraid of being hurt.

Sometimes when people are turning red they are angry, like the Hulk.

Except the Hulk turns green and we're not turning green.

Their head starts getting redder and redder or darker in colour, usually what that means

Now, in doing that, there are two meanings.

The second is turning red as in embarrassment.

This is funny because in this case the blood comes to the face but it's from embarrassment.

I'm embarrassed", and your face gets red.

So one is angry and you can almost feel the heat off of them, and the other one is: "Oh",

So, I'm telling you this because if you hear these two things, like turning red does not

Red in the face is angry, but this one, if someone says you're turning red, it means

you've gone from being comfortable to being ashamed.

When you tickle somebody, they: "[Laughs]", they laugh.

So, tickling someone pink means to make them happy.

So if someone's tickled pink to meet you, it means they're happy to meet you.

Because when we say, like, someone's in the pink of health, it's happy and healthy.

And you might notice, like, pink bubbles, we use it for little girls, and happiness

is pink, pink, pink, so you're tickled pink.

Well, green is the colour of envy, envy or jealousy.

When you envy someone you want what they have.

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Learn English color expressions to talk about situations & emotions

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