پنج اصطلاح کاربردی با GREEN

Hey!

Are you looking for some useful idioms

to liven up your English conversation?

If so, you have come to the right place.

In this post

we are going to look at 5 green idioms.

Okay, let’s go!

(to be) green with envy

It means to be very envious.

They’ll be green with envy.

Ned Flanders is green with envy.

to give someone the green light

It means to give approval or permission for someone

to do something or for something to happen.

Did you or your president

give the green light to Zelinski?

Did you or your president

give the green light to Zelinski?

Because if you don’t

we’ll give Rico the green light.

to have a green thumb

or how the British would say it:

to have green fingers

It means to be good at gardening

and making plants grow well.

Where did you get such a green thumb?

I got a green thumb.

Don’t worry about it.

Sit down!

I got a green thumb.

Don’t worry about it.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

This is not an idiom,

it’s a proverb.

But since it’s really common

I wanted to tell you about it.

It means other people’s lives or situations

always seem better than yours.

Exactly, grass.

It’s always greener on the other side.

You know,

the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

And the last one,

to be / feel / look green around the gills

or just simply to look green.

It means to look pale and ill

as if you’re going to vomit.

You look a little green around the gills, there.

All right!

What other green idioms or phrases do you know?

Tell me in the comments!

See ya!