FEATURES OF COLOR IDIOMS IN DESCRIBING PERSON
Keywords:
Red faced, black and black sheep, blue, tickled pink, white as a ghost, green fingered, off color, kept in the dark, grey area, black or white, in the red,to give the green light.Abstract
The article is devoted to studies of color idioms and its linguistic , semantic peculiarities to describe people in English and Uzbek languages. The attention will be focused on the fact that every single nation has its own features, customs, culture, traditions as well as the sense of idioms. When it comes to idioms and phraseological units in translation the majority of people start making the mistake of thinking that idioms are easy and simple. The purpose of the article to study linguistic and semantic peculiarities of idioms in order to describe people in English and Uzbek languages by the help of analyses of some color idioms in both languages with examples as well as possible .
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