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Colours, colours everywhere… everybody likes colours and so do I. Hi everyone my name is

Hridhaan and I welcome each one of you with a very big heart on Let's Talk. In today's

lesson we're going to be talking about some phrases, very interesting phrases that have

the component of colours embedded in it. So if you like colours and if you want to know

vocabulary that has colours involved in it then stay tuned with me and enjoy the lesson.

The first phrase that we have that has colour in it is, “baby blues”, everybody knows

what a baby is, but everybody also knows blue colour, how blue colour looks like. But not

everybody knows the combination of these two words together, what does it mean? Baby blues

means having mood swings and depression. Now a lot of times especially in our world today

with so much technology and such fragile emotions, people get into depression quite easily and

they say, “oh my god! I'm going through a depression, I'm really sorry can't talk.”

But there's another way of talking about it and you can say, baby blues, what can you

say? Baby blues. For example, “it has been more than five days she has been suffering

with baby blues. She has been suffering with depression. She is sad, not talking to everybody

and anybody not as social so she's what is happening to her? She is becoming baby blues,

she's getting into baby blues, depression. So nice vocabulary that you can use to talk

about mood swings and depression. Let us now move to the next phrase “colour up”. What

is colour up? For example if you add something, if you add colours to something does it colour

up? Yes it does. But what is the meaning of this phrasal verb together? It means to blush.

For example if somebody complements you, are you somebody who just blushes quite a lot

when you receive a compliment? Well then you colour up. Let's see how we can use it as

an example here, “she colours up whenever people appreciate her beauty.” Seems like

this woman is a quite beautiful and she receives a lot of compliments as well time and again,

what happens to her? She colours up, she ding-ding-dong… what happens? She blushes when people compliment

her beauty. Are you beautiful as well? And do you colour up to when people appreciate

your beauty? Please do let me know in the comments section below using the vocabulary,

‘colour up’. The next phrase is, “in the red”. Red is a very interesting colour,

right? But when we use ‘in the red’ it changes to, ‘to owe money to somebody’.

Very sad situation, very bad situation and quite dangerous situation, when you owe money

to somebody, that means when you have, when you lend money from someone, when you borrowed

money from someone and now you have to give it back, that situation is called, it's called

“in the red”. For example, “the company is in the red ever since the CEO joined”.

Seems like the CEO isn't doing a very good job, ever since the CEO arrived, the company

has been in the red. That means in debt. The company owes a lot of money to somebody else.

Good CEO, bad CEO… you decide. In the red. The next phrase that involves colour in it

is a “pitch dark”. Now personally I have seen a lot of people using this phrase pitch

dark. Pitch, here actually means ‘absolutely’, dark means no colour. So it means absolutely

dark in colour, it can be anything, you can talk about… for example imagine if you walk

into a room and it was completely dark inside, dark does not mean strong in colour, it means