English for Everybody - Advanced course
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Idioms of Colour


Look at these similies and choose the word which completes each of them.

1. As black as p

2. As white as a s (scared)

3. As white as s

4. As red as a b

5. As brown as a b


Now insert the correct colour to complete each of these idiomatic expressions.

6.   You can talk until you are in the face - you won't convince him.

7.   Every cloud has a lining - this disaster is not as bad as you think.

8.   She has a terrible reputation with men; the gossips call her a woman.

9.   That happens very rarely, not even once in a moon.

10. He's in the , really happy and healthy.

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