dream in colour Idiom, Proverb
colour up
1.turn red in the face脸红
Mary coloured up when she heard her boyfriend's name mentioned.听到有人提起男朋友的名字,玛丽脸红了。
When I complimented her,she coloured up a bit and said it was nothing really.我夸奖她时,她有点脸红,说那实际上不值得一提。
2.exaggerate夸大,渲染
Some journalists like to colour their stories up with lurid details of people's private lives.有些记者喜欢渲染人们私生活的一些俗艳故事细节。
Off colour
If someone looks off colour/color, they look ill.
Sail under false colours
Someone who sails under false colours (colors) is hypocritical or pretends to be something they aren't in order to deceive people.
True colours
If someone shows their true colours, they show themselves as they really are. ('True colors' is the American spelling.)
Under false colours
If someone does something under false colours/colors, they pretend to be something they are not in order to deceive people so that they can succeed.
With flying colours|With flying colors
If you pass something with flying colours (colors), you pass easily, with a very high mark or grade.
dream in color
To accept bold, generally unrealistic, ambitions. I consistently encouraged my kids to dream in color, but I never accepted one of them to become an astronaut.Learn more: color, dreamdream in colour (or Technicolor)
be berserk unrealistic.Learn more: colour, dream