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What color is the idiom tape in the idiom '-tape'?
It is red tape.
What does the idiom as red as a turkey gobblers wattle mean?
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.
What does the idiom itchy nose mean?
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
What does idiom mean in poetry?
idiom means expression like a page in a book
What word goes with worm red and ducked?
Tape, as in "Tape worm", "Red tape" and this is the other one although the word "Ducked" is spelt "Duct", "Duct tape".
What color is the idiom tape in the idiom '-tape'?
It is red tape.
What is the idiom saw red mean?
got angry
What is the idiom meaning of Have a tape worm inside?
This is not an idiom. They mean that someone literally has a tapeworm inside their intestines. It's a parasitic organism.
What does the idiom as red as a turkey gobblers wattle mean?
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.
What does the idiom red as a beet mean?
This is a term used when someone turns red (blushes) because they are embarrassed.
What does the idiom ''in the red'' mean?
In debt. Its antithesis, "in the black," refers to having a balanced budget.
What is the color of the herring in the idiom '-herring'?
The color of the herring in the idiom "-herring" is red.
What does the idiom to fly the red white and blue mean?
It means to be patriotic (by reference to flying the flag).
What does the idiom to go red in the face mean?
Your face usually turns red when you are embarrassed, so this phrase means that someone was ashamed of something.
What does the expression red hot tip mean?
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.
Is red tape always red?
"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.
Where does the term red tape come from?
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.
