What a color or an item of food symbolizes is culturally specific. In English, the figurative or metaphorical meaning of a particular color or food may have nothing to do with what that same color or food symbolizes in Spanish, Arabic or Swahili. Even among English-speakers, food and color, figuratively speaking, do not always mean the same thing. (6 Quick Study Guides/ 6 pages per guide)
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What a color or an item of food symbolizes is culturally specific. In English, the figurative or metaphorical meaning of a particular color or food may have nothing to do with what that same color or food symbolizes in Spanish, Arabic or Swahili. Even among English-speakers, food and color, figuratively speaking, do not always mean the same thing. Most American English-speakers probably would not understand: bacon rasher, to desert one's color, as different as chalk and cheese, to sail under false colors, bean-feast, to be called to colors, to win one's blue, to become a blue at Oxford, to dip one’s soldiers into soft-boiled eggs, to give someone beans, or to eat beetroots. A biscuit is not the same in American English as it is in British, Australian or South African English. An English-speaker outside of the U.S. probably would not understand the expressions a tough cookie or white bread . English has a large number color and food expressions. Wylcomenetwork.com Quick Study Guides on Color and Food Idioms were developed to help native, as well as non-native, speakers to understand the different idiomatic and figurative use of color and food in English.
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