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Images of English Vocabulary

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English Expressions based on metaphorical images
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  1. black:
    1. [悪]
      not as black as one is painted
    2. black magic
    3. black mail
    4. black humor
    5. [暗闇]
      black as pitch
    6. [停止]
      black out
    7. blacked out
    8. blackout
    9. [機密]
    10. [黒字]
      in the balck
    11. [正装]
      a black-tie formal
    12. [迷惑･排斥]
      black sheep
    13. [拒絶] blackball
    14. a blacklist
    15. [痣]
      a black eye
    16. black and blue
    17. [文書化]
      in black and white
  2. blue:
    1. [青空]
      out of the blue
    2. [血の気ない]
      turn blue
    3. until one is blue in the face
    4. [憂鬱]
      feel blue
    5. have the blues
    6. a blue monday
    7. [一流]
      blue-ribbon
    8. bluechip
    9. a blue blood
    10. [厳格]
      a blue law
    11. [猥褻]
      blue film
    12. [稀]
      once in a blue moon
    13. [滑舌]
      talk up a blue streak
  3. brown:
    1. [日焼け]
      brown as a berry
    2. [紙袋]
      brown-bag
  4. gray;
    1. [陰気]
      gray
    2. [中間]
      a gray area
    3. [白髪老人]
      turn gray
    4. gray power
  5. green:
    1. [植物]
      have a green thumb
    2. [環境保護]
      Green
    3. [未熟]
      green
    4. a greenhorn
    5. [安全]
      give sb the green light
    6. [気分が悪い]
      green around the gills
    7. [嫉妬]
      green with envy
    8. green-eye
    9. [紙幣]
      greenback
  6. pink:
    1. [健康]
      in the pink
    2. [歓喜]
      be tickled pink
  7. purple:
    1. [高貴]
      born in the purple
    2. [華麗]
      purple prose
    3. [怒り]
      turn purple with rage
  8. red:
    1. [恥ずかしい]
      red-faced
    2. red as a beet
    3. [怒り]
      see red
    4. [血]
      catch sb red-handed
    5. [熱血]
      red-blooded
    6. red-hot
    7. [日焼け]
      red as a lobster
    8. a redneck
    9. [赤字]
      in the red
    10. [危険]
      wave a red flag
    11. [革命]
      red flag
    12. [祝祭日]
      red-letter day
    13. [歓喜]
      paint the town red
    14. [高貴･名誉]
      give sb the red-carpet treatment
    15. [Sexy]
      a red light district
    16. [煩雑手続き] red tape
  9. rosy:
    1. [楽観的]
      a rosy outlook
    2. through rose-colored glasses
    3. [健康的]
      rosy cheeks
  10. white:
    1. [潔白]
      whitewash
    2. a little white lie
    3. [優雅]
      lily-white hands
    4. [白書]
      a white paper
    5. [密造酒]
      white lightning
  11. yellow:
    1. [臆病] yellow
    2. yellow-bellied
    3. a yellow streak
    4. a yellow dog contract
    5. [黄色紙]
      yellow pages
    6. [扇状]
      yelllow journalism
    7. [東洋人]
      yellow peril

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  1. black:
    1. Many politicians put on the rack by the press are not really as black as they are painted.
    2. In the Middle Ages people were put to death for practicing black magic. Nowadays it is considered a harmless, if rather eccentric, hobby.
    3. That jerk tried to blackmail me into giving him a job by saying that he would report my financial dealings to the IRS.
    4. The nightclub entertainer's black humor turned mos of the audience off. A lot of people got up in the middle of the show and walked out.
    5. Driving into the tunnel in the middle of the day game me a a start*. There were no lights on and it was black as pitch.
    6. This is a partially blacked out doument.
    7. The power blackout threw the whole city into a turmoil.
    8. When the pilot blacked out the plane went into a nose dive. Fortunately the co-pilot got it back on even keel before it was too late.
    9. If this company were in the black we all might get a bonus once in a while.
    10. I forgot that the party was to be a black-tie formal and got turned away at the door when I appeared in blue jeans.
    11. Being the black sheep of the family, I may have lost my part of the inheritance but I have my freedom.
    12. Everyone in the club seemed surprised to learn that John had been blackballed. No one could imagine who would have done it or why.
    13. When it was discovered that the FBI had helped the President make a blacklist of reporters hostile to the administration the press had a field day* feeding him to the wolves.
    14. The boss insisted that he got his black eye from bumping into the door, but we all knew it was probably a present from his lovely wife.
    15. Jerry was black and blue will over when he woke up on the morning after his accident.
    16. They may have promised you all kinds of things, but if you don't get them to put it all in black and white you'll never see any of it.
  2. blue:
    1. She just came in and told me out of the blue that she's getting remarried next month.
    2. You'd better get inside where it's warm. Your lips are turning blue.
    3. I've told him until I'm blue in the face to turn off the light when he leaves the room
    4. I feel blue every time I think of tomorrow.
    5. He's had the blues ever since he got that letter.
    6. The rotten weather made it a really blue Monday.
    7. This is a blue-ribbon horse.
    8. The blue-chip stocks continued to pay high dividends during the recession.
    9. I wish he'd quit acting like a blue blood or something.
    10. Many blue laws may belong to another age but some are still serviceable.
    11. Stag parties used to be popular because they provided an opportunity for seeing blue films.
    12. Do you ever go to the opera? -Oh, once in a blue moon.
    13. My little brother's shy when he's out around strangers but he can talk up a blue streak at home.
  3. brown:
    1. Mary was as brown as a berry when she came back from Hawaii.
    2. I can't stand the way he's always brown-nosing the boss.
    3. It's against the law in most states to brown-bag liquor in restaurants that don't have liquor licenses.
  4. gray:
    1. My day-to-day* life is dull and gray.
    2. concerned with or supporting protection of the environment as a political principle; official Green candidates; Green revolution
    3. The draft of the contract is full of gray areas.
    4. My hair began to turn gray when I was still in college.
    5. Most people look upon the Gray Power movement as more of a novelty than a real force for social change
  5. green:
    1. Let's give Thelma a plant for her birthday. She has a green thumb.
    2. Their staff is still green.
    3. He's looked upon as a greenhorn.
    4. The board has given us the green light on that project.
    5. He turned green around the gills as soon as the boat left the dock.
    6. The girls were green with envy when she showed off her diamond
    7. Instead of sitting around green-eyed, why don't you emulate him?
    8. The number of Americans who go to Europe in the summer increase when the greenback is strong.
  6. pink:
    1. He was down with a cold for a while but he's back in the pink now.
    2. My girl friend was tickled pink with the ring I gave her for Christmas.
  7. purple:
    1. Rumor has it that she was born in the purple. Frankly, I think she started the rumor herself.
    2. His purple prose is refreshing at first, but it begins to cloy after a few pages.
    3. Bill turned purple with rage when he found out I had borrowed his car without his permission.
  8. red:
    1. The President was red-faced when a reporter pointed out that his fly was open.
    2. He turned as red as a beet when his aunt called him by his childhood nickname in front of us.
    3. I 'll bet he'll see red when you give him the bill.
    4. She was caught shoplifting red-handed.
    5. Any red-blooded American should be prepared to defend his country.
    6. There's no way I'm quitting now. I'm red-hot.
    7. After three hours in the sun I was red as a lobster.
    8. The town was full of rednecks out to give the newcomers from up North a hard time.
    9. The airline company has been operating in the red for several years now.
    10. The man waved a red flag to stop motorists and told them the road was flooded up ahead.
    11. red flag; red army vs white guard; red square;
    12. Firming up these two deals has made this a real red-letter day.
    13. I got a raise today! Let's go paint the town red.
    14. The bank really gave me the red-carpet treatment when I told the manager I wanted to deposit 500,000 dollars.
    15. As I did was pull out a cigarette and suddenly four or five attractive women rushed up to light it. It dawned on me that I was in the red light district.
    16. I love my work but I hate all the red tape involved in getting research grants.
  9. rosy:
    1. The papers have been painting a rosy outlook for the economy in the first half of the year.
    2. If she thinks she's going to have it easy being the only woman in the company she's looking at the world through rose-colored glasses.
    3. Rosy cheeks are normally a sign of good health.
  10. white:
    1. His efforts to whitewash the affair backfired and he was booted out of office.
    2. What he thought was a little white lie was blown up by the press into something bordering on perjury.
    3. Can you imagine her dirtying her lily-white hands doing housework?
    4. She turned white as a sheet when the building shook.
    5. The government has issued its latest white paper on defense spending.
    6. He's been sent up twice for making white lightning.
  11. yellow:
    1. He acts like a big hero but deep down he's yellow.
    2. He was labeled a yellow-bellied traitor without being given a chance to explain his actions.
    3. He has a yellow steak that's a mile wide.
    4. Before the war that company made its employees sign yellow-dog contracts bu now it's a union shop.
    5. "Let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages."
    6. Flagrant yellow journalism may not be common now but it nonetheless continues to exist in subtler forms.
    7. the Yellow Peril

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  1. black: 悪; 暗闇 (>dark matter); 黒字; 正装; 迷惑; 痣; 文字化; ✕有罪; ✕black company >exploitative company, toxic workplace 長時間低賃金パワハラ企業
    1. not as black as: 評判ほど悪くない
    2. black magic: 黒魔術(悪魔の助けを借りて)
      ⇔white magic; rackボロクソに言う
    3. 国税庁にばらすと恐喝; jert=とんま; IRS=Internal Revenue Service
    4. Black humorは受けなかった。¶大半が途中で離席; *start=はっと驚く ¶give sb a sudden start
    5. black as a ptich: 真っ暗闇
    6. blacked out: ¶文書の一部が黒塗り (=redacted)
    7. blackout: 停電 >white out 吹雪で視界零; ¶停電で市全体が大混乱
    8. black out 正気を失う; 失神する; on a even kneel =安定した
    9. in the black: 黒字
    10. black-tie formal: 正装のparty; turn away =追い払う
    11. black sheep 厄介者 <聖書の故事
    12. blackball 入会拒否 <色球で賛否投票. 黒球で拒否権行使
    13. a blacklist; *field day =実地調査の日(< 狩猟日); ¶一斉に大統領をこき下ろした
    14. a black eye =目の周りのあざ
    15. black and blue =あざだらけ
    16. in black (文字) and white (余白); ¶文書化しないと、何も実行されない
  2. blue: ✕青天井; 顔面蒼白; 青二才; 青葉･青物; 青い目
    1. <a bolt out of the blue 青空から稲妻; 思いがけず >晴天の霹靂; ¶やぶから棒に再婚すると通告
    2. turn blue =青ざめる; ¶唇が紫色になる
    3. until one is blue in the face: 口が酸っぱくなる程
    4. feel blue: 憂鬱になる
    5. have the blues: 気が塞いでいる
    6. a blue Monday: 憂鬱な月曜
    7. blue-ribbon: 一流の <英の最高勲章
    8. blue-chip: 優良株式
    9. a blue blood: 名門の出
    10. a blue law: 厳法 <清教徒主義の法典; ¶過去の法律だが, 現在でも通用する
    11. stag 雄鹿 >男だけの社交; ¶男だけのパーティでのポルノ映画; blue joke =dirty joke; ♣ピンク映画
    12. blue moon <一ヶ月に2回目の満月 >非常に稀な出来事
    13. blue streak: 青い稲妻 >素早い動き, 電光石火; ¶外ではおとなしいが, 家では滑舌
  3. brown:
    1. brown as a berry: 真っ黒に日焼け
    2. brown nose <ウンチ色がつく =ass, kisser; butt-kisser <buttocks; 上司にごますりでおべっか使い
    3. brown-bag; <弁当包みの紙袋; ¶酒販売許可のない店への酒の持ち込みは禁止
  4. gray: ♠灰色の人生; どっちつかず; ✕灰色高官, 疑わしい
    1. gray: *day-to-day 日々の; ¶無味乾燥で希望がない
    2. gray area =gray zone; ¶不分明な部分だらけ
    3. turn gray: ♣白髪･シルバー; 学生時代から白髪
    4. Gray Power: 老人パワー; ¶社会変革の真の推進力というより、目先の変わった風潮
  5. green: 古代日本語には緑はなく、青が緑を包含; 鎌倉時代以降緑が独立>青信号, 青葉; <grow
    1. have a green thumb: 園芸の才がある
    2. Green: 環境にやさしい; =renewable
    3. green: 未熟な >青二才; ¶まだ経験不足だ
    4. greenhorn: 若い牛 >未熟者･青二才
    5. greenlight: 青信号 >¶ゴーサイン ♠緑十字; 緑地帯
    6. green around the gills: 顔色が青ざめている; ¶船酔いで青くなった
    7. green with envy: 羨望; ¶show off 見せびらかすとしきりにうらやましがる
    8. green-eyed: ¶羨ましがっていないで少しは見習ったら
    9. greenback: <米ドル紙幣
  6. pink: ✕sexy
    1. in the pick (of health): ¶すっかり健康になった
    2. be tickled pink: <tickle 呼び起こす; ¶指輪の贈答に大喜びした
  7. purple: Cf a shrinking violet 引っ込み思案な人
    1. born in the purple: ¶名門の生まれ;
      >Purple Heart 米軍の名誉戦傷勲章
    2. purple prose: 凝った華美な文章; cloy 飽きる; ¶最初は目新しいが次第に鼻につく
    3. turn purple with rage: 真っ赤になって激怒
  8. red: >✕紅一点 the only woman; 真っ赤な嘘 flat-out lie; absolute lie...
    1. red-faced: 赤面する; ¶社会の窓が開いているのに赤面した
    2. red as a beet: ¶子供の頃のニックネームで呼ばれて顔が赤面した
    3. see red: <闘牛; ¶請求書を見せたらきっとカーッとなるだろう
    4. catch sb red-handed: 現行犯逮捕 <血染めの手; ¶万引きの現行犯で捕まった
    5. red-blooded: ¶血気盛んで勇ましい米国人
    6. red-hot: 熱中して; ¶今やめるなんてとんでもない。最高に乗っている所だから
    7. red as a lobster: 真っ赤に日焼けして
    8. a redneck: 南部の田舎者; <out to 目的のために積極的に行動する; <from up North 北(上の)方の; ¶北部からの新参者に意地悪しようと南部の保守的な連中で一杯だった
    9. in the red: 赤字<BSの借方を赤字で記入; ¶ここ数年赤字経営
    10. wave a red flag: 赤旗を振って危険を知らせる
    11. red < 仏革命Jocobins党 <tricolorのJacobinの象徴 1791のデモ以来; 政治的symbol <殉教者の血+戒厳令の色; ⇔white 王党 > cf: 米 red (blue) state
    12. red-letter day: ¶取引がまとまり記念日となった
    13. paint the town red: ¶昇給したので、大いに飲み歩く
    14. give sb the red-carpet treatment; ¶下にも置かぬ歓待をする
    15. a red light district: =赤線地帯; ¶dawn on わかり始める; ¶ タバコを取り出しただけで....自分が売春地域にいる
    16. 18C英; 公文書を閉じる赤い綴紐と蜜蝋(beeswax)による封蝋 sealing wax >煩雑な手続き; ¶研究費を得る際の煩雑な手続きには閉口
  9. rosy:
    1. a rosy outlook: 明るい見通し
    2. through rose-colored glasses: 考え方が甘い; ¶社内唯一の女性だからと呑気に構えているとしたら考えが甘い
    3. rosy cheeks: 血色の良い頬は健康の印
  10. white: ▲white 善-black 悪は避ける傾向; ✕美人=色白
    1. whitewash: うわべだけ白く塗る >制裁よくごまかす
    2. a little white lie: 悪意のない嘘; ¶本の他愛もない嘘のつもりが、新聞ではほとんど偽証扱いとなった
    3. lily-white hands: 白魚のような指を汚す姿
    4. white as a sheet/ghost: 血の気のない; ¶サッと血の気が引いた
    5. a white paper: 政府発行の報告書; ¶防衛支出白書
    6. white lightning: 密造酒corn wisky; =moonshine; ¶密造酒醸造の罪で収監
  11. yellow: ✕注意･活発; ✕未熟; ✕高い声 >shrill voice
    1. yellow: <ユダの着衣;¶英雄のように振る舞うが、根は臆病だ
    2. yellow-bellied: <腰抜けの肝臓には血が流れていない; ¶弁解の機会も与えられずに、卑劣な裏切り者とのレッテルを貼られた
    3. a yellow streak (taht's a mile wide): steak =傾向; <太い黄色の線 >普段はそう見えないがいざとなると大変臆病
    4. yellow dog contract: =犬野郎; 労働組合未加入の雇用契約 (不当労働行為) ;¶ あの会社に入社する人達に黄犬契約を結ばせていたが、今ではunion shop制
    5. yellow pages: 職業別電話帳; 米CM 電話の広告欄のCM
    6. yellow jounalism: 扇状的な興味本位のjounalism <注意を引くために黄色のインクを使用
    7. 黄禍論

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  1. ass:
    1. [馬鹿] make an ass of oneself:
  2. badger:
    1. [罠] badger:
    2. badger game
  3. bat:
    1. [盲目] blind as a bat
    2. [狂気] batty
    3. have bats in one's belfry
    4. [疾走]
      like a bat out of hell
  4. bear:
    1. [落ち着かない]
      restless as a bear
    2. [頑強大男]
      burly as a bear
    3. [不機嫌]
      act like a bear
    4. growl like a bear
    5. [飢餓]
      hungry as a bear
    6. [がさつ]
      clumsy as a bear
    7. [抱擁]
      (give someone) a bear hug
  5. beaver:
  6. buck/stag:
  7. Bull/ox/cow:
  8. camel:
  9. cat/kitten:
  10. cat and dog:
  11. cat and mouse:
  12. dog:
  13. elephant:
  14. fox:
  15. goat:
  16. guinea pig:
  17. horse
  18. hyena:
  19. kangaroo:
  20. lion:
  21. monkey/ape:
  22. mouse/rat:
  23. mule:
  24. opssum
  25. pig/hog:
  26. porcupine/hedgehog
  27. rabit/hare:
  28. sheep/lamb
  29. skunk:
  30. tiger:
  31. weasel:
  32. wolf:

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  1. ass:
    1. I made an ass of myself at the cocktail party.
  2. badger*:
    1. Don't let him badger you into getting something you don't want.
    2. The candidate fell victim to an ingeniously contrived* badger game.
  3. bat:
    1. Listen, his eyes aren't just bad. He's blind as a bat.
    2. You want to marry Ernie? You're batty.
    3. You must have bats in your belfry* if you think I'm going to lend you any more money.
    4. He took off like a bat out of hell when I told him his wife was coming.
  4. bear:
    1. He was as restless as a bear when he was in the hospital lobby waiting for his wife to give birth.
    2. The guy that threw me out of the bar was as burly* as a bear.
    3. The boss is always such a bear in the morning that we try to avoid him until after he's had lunch.
    4. When I asked my husband to mow* the lawn yesterday he just growled like a bear and turned on the TV.
    5. I'm hungry as a bear. I'll take a double order of French fries.
    6. I can't keep any fragile things around the house. My husband's clumsy* as a bear.
    7. It had been over 10 years since I had last seen my uncle and he greeted me with a bear hug that nearly took the wind* out of me.
  5. beaver:
  6. buck/stag:
  7. Bull/ox/cow:
  8. camel:
  9. cat/kitten:
  10. cat and dog:
  11. cat and mouse:
  12. dog:
  13. elephant:
  14. fox:
  15. goat:
  16. guinea pig:
  17. horse
  18. hyena:
  19. kangaroo:
  20. lion:
  21. monkey/ape:
  22. mouse/rat:
  23. mule:
  24. opossum
  25. pig/hog:
  26. porcupine/hedgehog
  27. rabbit/hare:
  28. sheep/lamb
  29. skunk:
  30. tiger:
  31. weasel:
  32. wolf:

<Mammals>:

  1. ass:
    1. make an ass of oneself:
  2. badger: アナグマ
    1. badger: しつこく絡む<badger baiting アナグマ攻め; ¶押し切られた欲しくもない物を買わされる
    2. badger game: 美人局; contrived 不自然な ¶巧妙に仕組まれた美人局にまんまと引っかかった。
  3. bat:
    1. blind as a bat: コウモリのように目が見えない;
    2. batty: 頭がおかしい; ¶気が狂ったのではないか
    3. have bats in one's belfry: *belfry 鐘楼 (=頭); ¶僕がこれ以上金を貸すなんて頭がおかしい
    4. like a bat out of hell: <コウモリが地獄から逃げるイメージ; take off 急いで立ち去る; ¶カミさんが来ると言ったら、脱兎の如く逃げ出した。
  4. bear:
    1. restless as a bear: ¶動物園の熊のように落ち着かなかった
    2. burly as a bear: burly =がっしりした; ¶バーから放り出した男は熊のような大男
    3. (act like) a bear: 朝機嫌が悪い; ¶彼の昼飯が終わるまでは近づかない
    4. growl like a bear: ぶつぶつ不安を言う; growl =動物がうなる; *mow =刈り取る; ¶芝刈りを頼んだら、ぶつぶつ文句言ってTVをつけるのよ。
    5. hungry as a bear: ¶腹ペコなので、二人前もらおう。
    6. clumsy as a bear: *clumsy =不器用･不細工; ¶壊れ易いものは家に置いてけない。夫ががさつなので。
    7. (give someone) a bear hug: *wind =呼吸 ¶叔父は私が行きが詰まるほど強く抱擁した
  5. beaver:
  6. buck/stag: 雄鹿
  7. bull/ox/cow:
  8. camel:
  9. cat/kitten:
  10. cat and dog:
  11. cat and mouse:
  12. dog:
  13. elephant:
  14. fox:
  15. goat:
  16. guinea pig:
  17. horse
  18. hyena:
  19. kangaroo:
  20. lion:
  21. monkey/ape:
  22. mouse/rat:
  23. mule:
  24. opssum: フクロネズミ
  25. pig/hog:
  26. porcupine/hedgehog: ヤマアラシ
  27. rabit/hare:
  28. sheep/lamb
  29. skunk:
  30. tiger:
  31. weasel: イタチ
  32. wolf:

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