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It means bureauocracy essentially. Meaning procedures which have to be followed despite their waste of time involved in doing so. This phrase comes from the fact that official documents were once bound in pink or red ribbon.
This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___, you are looking at A Simile. This one is comparing something to the red color of a turkey's wattle.
This is a term used when someone turns red (blushes) because they are embarrassed.
I had to get through a lot of Red Tape in order to get what i came for, but in the end all the trouble I had was worth it because the reward was so great.
In debt. Its antithesis, "in the black," refers to having a balanced budget.
It means to be patriotic (by reference to flying the flag).
"Red Tape" is not red, or even tape - it is a colloquial expression meaning "sluggish, plodding bureaucracy". To repeat: It is just an expression - it has nothing to do with "tape", red or otherwise.
Your face usually turns red when you are embarrassed, so this phrase means that someone was ashamed of something.
This idiom is thought to derive from the eighty or more annulment petitions Henry VIII sent Pope Clement VII regarding his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. This superfluous bundle of papers can be seen wrapped in red tape in a photo from Saints and Sinners, a History of The Popes by Eamon Duffy.
It can mean several things, depending on whether it is meant literally or as an idiom. Literally, it would mean that the tip of something is red-hot, or glowing with heat. As an idiom, a "tip" is information that can be used in a situation, so a "red-hot" one would be something that is especially important at the moment, something timely and greatly useful.