Color Idioms 2 Learn English Idioms

Learn English idioms Here are some more useful color idioms from Chasing Rainbows Chasing rainbows means to attempt something very difficult or impossible. Will our new restaurant succeed or are we just chasing rainbows Golden Opportunity A Golden opportunity is an ideal or perfect chance. Being invited on a TV show is a golden opportunity to promote our products. Brown Noser A brown noser is a person who does nice things for superiors (начальство, руководство) to gain advantage or status. That student does everything for his teacher. He s such a brown noser Green To be green is to be immature (незрелый, неподготовленный) or new at something. The rookie (новобранец) baseball player is really green In The Black To be in the black means to profitable (прибыльный) or successful. That company sold a million books and is now in the black. In The Red To be in the red means to be in debt or unprofitable. The company has lost so much money that it s in the red. Out