English for Everybody - Advanced course
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Idioms of Colour

Find the colours that go with the colloquial expressions below and write them into the crossword. Check your answers when you have finished.

1. You are as....... as a berry 1 2
2. Feeling sad, depressed and ......
3. Every cloud has a ....... lining 3
4. The punch gave him a ...... eye 4
5. As ...... as a sheet 6 5
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8 10
6.They went ....... with envy
7. In retirement, enjoying his ...... years
8. He wrote in florid, ....... prose
9.He was ....... as a beetroot
10. All cats are ....... in the dark

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