Seeing Red or Tickled Pink: Color Terms in Everyday Language

By Christine Ammer

Book Overview

A compendium of dozens of color-related idiomatic expressions--from ""feeling blue"" to ""turning green with envy""--features sections devoted to each color family and offers the meaning and origins... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452270405
• ISBN13: 9780452270404
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"