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February 26, 2011 9:51 am
If you say to someone the Spanish equivalent of "you're giving me green gray hairs" (me sacas canas verdes), it means that person is making you angry. In Japan, the phrase that literally translates as "one red dot" refers metaphorically to "the lone woman in a group of men." Martha and Grant discuss these and other idioms collected online in Alan Kennedy's Color/Language Project. This is part of a complete episode.