hi welcome back to Ingrid 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 colorful idioms idioms
that use color in their expression
before I begin colorful you'll notice I
used you I'm Canadian we use the you
just like the British people Americans
use only the oh no you I use both just
to make everybody happy so just so you
understand it's not a spelling mistake
either way let's begin so I have a few
idioms here the thing about a diems they
never mean what the words say you have
to actually understand what the idiom
means and how to use it so if someone
sees the world or sees a situation
through rose-tinted glasses glasses or
glasses you wear on your head
rose-tinted there's a little bit of a
pink shade on the glass so you've seen
the world a little bit pinkish like the
color of the rose that means you're very
optimistic even in a bad situation
you're going to see everything is good
you're seeing the world through
rose-tinted glasses right you work at a
company and they're about to lay off
half the staff half the people are going
home no more job and you think oh this
is a great opportunity for me to find a
new job and get a advance my career so I
am seeing the situation through
rose-tinted glasses I don't see the bad
economy I don't see the fact that I'm 55
years old and I don't have any skills
except for what I do my job but I will
be okay rose tinted glasses give someone
the green light you often hear this
about governments giving the army the
green light to attack to give the green
light to give permission okay go ahead
like a green light in traffic you see
the green light press the gas you go so
for example the buddy
excuse me the Board of Directors gave
the CEO the green light to lay off half
his staff
even the ones wearing rose-tinted
glasses okay so everybody's going home
no more work with flying colors we
always add this expression to the end of
event or action so for example he passed
his interview with flying colors with
flying colors means very very successful
he did very very well he went to a job
interview he passed with flying colors
he got offered the job okay if you're a
tickled pink means you're very very
happy okay like tickled funny right
you're tickled pink you get all pink in
the face you're very happy so Tom's
grandfather was very was tickled pink
when he found out that Tom and his wife
were pregnant now I say Tom and his wife
were pregnant because it's common for
couples to think of themselves as
pregnant even though it's only the woman
of course paint the town red this is a
very good expression you're studying for
your English exams okay you're very hard
studying very hard very hard very hard
you finish your exams you're free this
weekend you're going to go paint the
town red means you're going to go party
you're going to go have a very good time
you can spend all night drinking and
partying in clubs and dancing people
have a very good time you're going to
paint the town red do everything blue
colored worker white colored worker this
might be a very common expression for
you blue collar so first of all a collar
if you have a shirt with a tie let's say
or no tie this is the collar sorry about
the tapping you have a collar if it's
blue means you're working in a factory
or our garage you're a mechanic or
you're working in some skilled job if
you're a white collared worker if the
color of your collar is white means
you're working in an office you're some
kind of professional okay now if you're
the type of person who sees things in
black and white means you're very
straightforward very simple very direct
maybe a little bit lacking imagination
not necessarily things are black and
white there's no great there's no middle
ground it's like this or like that
no other way right so you're seeing
things in black and white everybody has
a something that comes across a problem
and some people see things as positive
the guy with the rose tinted glasses he
sees potential the guy who sees things
in black and white
he thinks I'm out of a job I'm in
trouble he doesn't imagine beyond that
okay so these are some very useful
expressions used every day good idioms
you can practice using these at Inc
vidcom there's a quiz there and of
course ask questions see you again
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