Similes
As red as ...
...a beetroot
An important day
A red-letter day
When depressed, you feel...
Blue
An expression to talk about your brains
Your grey matter
Or as Hercule Poirot would say " your little grey cells"
A song with red in the title
Police: Red, red wine
C. De Burgh: Lady in red..
As green as
Double your points if you can explain what it means
... grass / a gooseberry
Naive, gullible
it happened suddenly!
Out of the blue
To say it's OK...
you give someone the green light
Where exotic plants grow
A greenhouse
A famous rock band
Double the points if you can give the title of an album
Pink Floyd
Ummagumma, Animals, Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall,
As black as ...
... night, coal, pitch, midnight...
When you are good at gardening,
you have green fingers
A misleading clue
A red herring
The three colours of the traffic lights
Red
Amber
Green
A famous submarine in a song.
Double the points if you can name the band
Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
As white as...
Double the points if you can explain the meaning
....a sheet/ a ghost
terrified
OR
... snow
Very pure
Caught on the spot!
Red handed!
What you see if you are drunk
Pink elephants
A dangerous part of town
The red light district
Two films with blue in the title
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine
David Lynch's Blue Velvet
Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors:Blue.
As grey as...
Double the points if you can explain the meaning
... a rainy day
Gloomy
Every cloud has....
Double the points if you can explain the expression
a silver lining!
Every difficult or unpleasant situation has advantages
A rare occurence
Once in a blue moon
Forms, paperwork, admin
Red tape!
3 fairy tale characters with a colour in their name
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White
Blue Beard
Goldylocks