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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525934626
• ISBN13: 9780525934622
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"