English for Everybody - Advanced course
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Idioms of Colour

Look at this narrative, and fill in the appropriate colour in the gaps. Choose your words from the list above the text.

yellow green pink green blue black white blue purple red rose white black red

Joe was feeling 1.. He usually looked at the world through 2.-coloured spectacles. He felt that he was in the 3.of health, and that his bank account was solidly in the 4.. His 5. fingers meant that he had a good job as a gardner, and his reputation was as 6. as driven snow.

It was a 7. day for Joe when he met that salesman. Joe was so 8. and inexperienced, that he fell for the salesman's 9. prose. The salesman took every 10. cent out of his bank account, and when Joe saw what he had actually brought, he was so angry that he saw 11. and his language turned the air 12.. The salesman was too 13. to stand up to Joe. He went 14. and ran away.

 

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