ashamed
Feeling embarrassed is like being a tomato – red-faced and ripe with discomfort.
Yes, only when it is ripe otherwise it is green
They have not grOwn fully for them to turn ripe and red or... It's not a tomato...
embarrassed <- short answer. For example: His face was as red as a ripe tomato. It doesn't have to mean embarrassed, it could just mean that after sport, his sweaty face was as red as a ripe tomato or if somebody drank too much wine and his face was as red as a beetroot, you could say that.
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whenever they turn red they are ripe and ready to eat
Tomatoes are deeply red, so the expression "red as a tomato" means that something is as red as it can possibly be. However as ripe tomatoes come in red, pink, orange and yellow (depending on the species) the expression can be confusing to new users of English.
Tomatoes are deeply red, so the expression "red as a tomato" means that something is as red as it can possibly be. However as ripe tomatoes come in red, pink, orange and yellow (depending on the species) the expression can be confusing to new users of English.
When the are ripe (red) is the best time to harvest tomato. At the best temperature to kept tomato is 16 Celsius. Don't put tomato in the refrigerator. But the earliest the tomato can be harvest is when a white star appear at the bottom of the tomato. Commercial production do this a lot to ship tomato in all over the country.
The converse of the statement if a strawberry is red, then it is ripe would be if it is ripe, then the strawberry is red.
simile It is an example of a simile (uses like or as). A simile in itself though is a type of metaphor.
Over the years it was found that when a tomato is red and ripe it was already too ripe to withstand the pressures of uneven roads plus weight pressures of tomatoes from the top. So it was found that if tomatoes are picked a few days earlier when just red and still firm the tomatoes are able to withstand the problems of transport and arrive at their destination still firm and unblemished.