COLOUR IDIOMS

Capital punishment is not a _____________ and _______________ issue. It's much more complex than that.

There's so much _________ tape in opening up a restaurant that we decided to ditch the plan in the end.

The new law is just a _____________ herring meant to draw our attention away from the issues regarding education.

My grandsparents always roll out the __________ carpet when I visit them

My oldest brother was the ______________ sheep in our family. He dropped out of school when he was sixteen.

Sometimes it's better to tell a ___________________ lie than to hurt someone's feelings.

There is a ____________ area regarding the new law; it's not as transparent as we may think.

The stadium is likely to become a _____________ elephant after the championships are over.

She told me, out of the ___________, that she was going to live in Belgium.

She loves gardening and definitely has ______________ fingers.

We only go out for dinner once in a ____________ moon.

Items like bread, milk and meat could only be obtained on the _____________ market during the war.