Colors

The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans.A person who has a sick feeling stomach may said she feels a little green.A passenger on a boat who is feeling sick from high waves may look very green.

Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as his friend has, like a fast new car.That people may say he is green with envy.Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper of money.

The color black is often used in expressions.People describe a day in which everything goes as a black day.The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now.But at one day, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to an unpopular organizations.

In some cases,colors describe a situation.A brown out is expression for a reduction of electric power.Brown outs happen when there is too much demand for electricity.The electric system is unable to offer all the power needed in an area.Black outs were common during World War Two.Officials wold order all lights in a city turned off to make it difficult to enemy plane to find target in the dark of night.