Seeing Red or Tickled Pink: Color Terms in Everyday Language

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A compendium of dozens of color-related idiomatic expressions--from "feeling blue" to "turning green with envy"--features sections devoted to each color family and offers the meaning and origins of each expression. 10,000 first printing.

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