SPM counts down for several months, are you still worried about your composition scores? Besides reading more and practising more, learning some English idioms can also greatly add points to the composition! Today, here are five idioms about [colour], which will greatly add points to your composition!
- To give someone the green light
—Stop at the red light and go at the green light. “give a person a green light” means to allow a person to do something.
—-My mother gave us the green light to go to watch a movie in the cinema.
- A golden opportunity
—Literally, it means “a golden opportunity”. We can know that this opportunity is precious and an opportunity to do great things.
—This is a golden opportunity to show your intelligence.
- To see someone’s true colour
—means looking at a person’s true face. But the true face is a derogatory term here, so it is the bad side of finding a person.
—When we started to work together, we began to see this guy’s true colours.
- Monday blues
—Monday is a sad day for office workers and students because they have to go to work and go to school! That’s why there is such a saying as “melancholy Monday”.
—It is Monday blues after a wonderful weekend for those students.
- To be in the red
—In economics, green refers to gain, while red refers to loss. If there is a red record in your savings or bank account, it means you are losing money.
—If your bank account is in the red, you owe your money.
If you find English difficult, it’s because you didn’t study hard, but only learned superficially. So when you are learning English, you can string together a story with logic and imagination, which will make it easier to remember knowledge!
