Blue and Yellow

Learning idioms in selected categories is a good way of learning. For example, you could start by learning all the idioms that have a certain words in them, for example the colors. Here are some of the idioms in English with the words blue and yellow in them. As you see, there are more expressions with blue than yellow. Why? Click on the expressions to see the meaning.

• black and blue  
• What/Why/Who etc. the blue blazes
• blue blood
• into the wide/wild blue yonder
• like blue blazes
• out of the blue
• talk a blue streak
• until you are blue in the face
• run around/rush around etc. like a blue-arsed fly
• blue-collar
• a bolt from the blue
• a blue-eyed boy
• the boys in blue
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• be in a (blue) funk
• scream blue murder
• once in a blue moon
• true-blue
• yellow journalism
• yellow-bellied