Asking about proverbs and languages about English colors

Red letter day: it means "anniversary" or "happy day"

See red: furious (

An energetic person, an active person.

White elephant, white elephant; White hope, people have high hopes.

White lies are not malicious lies.

Black money: black money

A. Red (red)

Whether in English-speaking countries or in China, red is often associated with celebrations or festivals. Because in the calendar, these days are often in red font. Therefore,

Red letter day: it means "anniversary" or "happy day"

Red also refers to "debt" or "loss", because people always use red pen to register negative numbers. So there are these phrases:

Red number: deficit

deficit

Deficit: loss

Red entry: deficit entry

Red balance: deficit difference

In addition, there are such things as

Red cent: a penny; Red gold: pure gold; Stock market red tip: refers to the latest stock market information.

Words with the word "red" commonly used in Chinese may not be translated into English. For example:

Brown sugar: brown sugar

Black tea: black tea

Red list: honor roll

Red beans: love peas

Hongyun: Good luck.

Dividend: dividend

Red event: wedding

Red wine: red wine

Red ruins: fire

Red campaign: bloody battle

Red sky: rosy clouds

B. Black (black)

In English, there are often meanings of "bad", "bad" and "evil". For example:

Black money: black money (refers to money from improper sources and not paying taxes to the government)

Black market: black market trading or black market (refers to the secret trading of goods or foreign exchange prohibited by the government, or illegal speculation in the market); Black market price is derived from this: black market price.

In addition, in English, contrary to the meaning when accounting in red ink, black can also mean profit. For example:

Profit, money, surplus

Another example.

Black number country: a country with a surplus balance of payments.

Surplus interest: interest receivable

C. Blue (blue)

In English, it usually means unhappiness and melancholy. For example:

Melancholy: Depressed

It is also often used to indicate high social status, power, or birth to a noble or royal family. such as

He is a real aristocrat. He is a real aristocrat. )

Blue-eyed boy: an employee favored and specially cared for by management.

Blue moon: a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

Blue in economic vocabulary has many different meanings. For example:

Blue book: blue book

Blue sky market: open-air market

Blue-collar worker: a worker engaged in manual labor

Blue chips: hot securities

Blue button: a metaphor for a broker who has access to stock trading.

Blue return: blue income tax return (only applicable to honest taxpayers)

Blue-chip interest rate: Britain's preferential credit rate

Blue law: blue law (referring to American law prohibiting business transactions on Sundays)

Blue law: blue law (refers to the stock issuance control law enacted by American States to manage stocks)

Blue sky bargaining: haggling all over the sky (refers to making unrealistic or unreasonable demands in negotiations or other transactions, which makes it impossible to reach an agreement)

D. Green (green)

In English, green is often used to express "jealousy", such as

Jealous; jaundiced

Green also said "fresh" or lack of experience and training, such as:

Green meat: fresh meat

Novice: Novice

Green also has the following meanings in the financial field:

Green back: US dollar bills (because the back of the dollar is green) (used in spoken English)

Green Power: "Power of Money" or "Consortium"

Green stamp: refers to the American relief voucher, which is named after being printed in green.

Green list refers to the detailed comparison table of government budget.

Green pound: Green pound (refers to the high exchange rate pound stipulated in * * * internal calculation of agricultural product prices. )

Excerpted from online articles

Blue Monday, bad Monday, white rage, rage.

White lies, no malicious lies, sleepless nights.

The sensational report of yellow news, yellow dog ingratitude

Red flag, angry people, black dog, melancholy and unhappy people

Bad day, Blake Smith

Black sheep, black sheep and black leg liar

Weddings and funerals: a bad job, a white effort.

Free gift, free.

Get something for nothing

Black and white are not confused right and wrong.

Good start, good start.

Be healthy and energetic.

I also found some Chinese words with color meanings, but the translation is not necessarily about color:

White sheet

White agriculture "white agriculture" (also known as "white engineering agriculture"); Refers to microbial agriculture and biological cell agriculture. )"

start from the very beginning

Snow White

Prince charming; Perfect young man

white pollution

Buckingham Palace

white-collar crime

White collar worker

Bermuda Triangle

A hundred years old

white paper

white heat

white agriculture