oh so many colors and so many office
things I'm arnelle from arnelle's
everyday English and today we're going
to look at the top 10 color idioms you
can use to speak about an office
environment color with the U is a
British spelling without the U is the
American spelling first what is an idiom
piece of cake an idiom is a group of
words which has a different definition
to the actual vocabulary a piece of cake
doesn't mean a piece of cake it means
something is very easy to do let me know
if you have any of these idioms in your
language I'm very curious let's begin
number one to give someone the green
light is you give someone permission
just like at a traffic stop you can say
go my boss gave me the green light to
start on the project number two a gray
area a great area is a situation that
doesn't really have specific rules
nobody is very certain of the rules so
can we really use the company car to run
personal errands well that's a bit of a
gray area but yes most people do it
number three to be in the red if a
company of business or even a person is
in the red it means they have negative
money in their account I didn't know
this but our company has been operating
in the red for six months what are we
going to do
number four red tape laws and rules
which seem too strict and unnecessary my
coffee shop wants to start selling hot
food but there's so much red tape before
we can even get started I might need to
hire a solicitor a lawyer to help me
with all the paperwork number five
roll out the red carpet to make a lot of
effort for an important visitor we have
a very important client coming today we
are rolling out the red carpet for him
we bought a new coffee machine
we have donuts in the conference room
and everyone must smile and shake his
hand number six a golden opportunity the
chance to do something spectacular my
boss asked me if I wanted to go to
Hawaii to open a new branch of course I
said yes what a golden opportunity I
couldn't say no to that number seven to
see someone's true colors someone who
you thought was honest and friendly is
actually
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dishonest my friend my colleague at work
I thought was trying to help me but I
eventually saw her true colors she was
saying one thing to me and telling the
boss something different number 8 a
black sheep this is a person in a group
who's a little bit different it's not
really a positive description who was
that oh that was Susan she's a little
bit of a black sheep she never talks to
anyone number 9 once in a blue moon
very rarely once in a blue moon everyone
in the office goes out to lunch together
last but not least number 10 Monday
blues it's the sad feeling you have
because it's Monday and you need to
begin working or studying again okay
that's fine I just have the Monday blues
do you want to grab a coffee okay there
you have it the top ten idioms with
colors that you can use to speak about
an office environment so don't forget to
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these idioms in your own language
and I'll see you soon for another video