Green with envy - very envious
Before Shakespeare, a green complexion (i.e. pale and sickly) was associated with other things besides envy: these included fear, ill-humor and illness. In a famous passage Iago warns Othello to 'beware, my lord, of jealousy;/It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock/The meat it feeds on' (III, 3, lines 169-71), a metaphor from the green-eyed cat family which is prone to play with (mock) its victims as a cat plays with a mouse. Though green has continued to have other associations, notably immaturity and gullibility, it is envy that now predominates.
the green eyed monster lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shun the non- believers!!!!!!!!!! :P
O yeah n00bz u just got pwnt by myuber awsome l337 freind there. The green eyed monster will shove a chopsitck up your nose! YAH you'll be dead... tehehe
She was the envy of the town.His face went green with envy.
Palestinian and Persian
It is just an idiom and has no history.
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Meaning he will help you out.
Green is the color of envy, such as the statement 'green with envy'.
The phrase "green with envy" is believed to originate from ancient Greece, where the color green was associated with jealousy and envy. This concept was further popularized by Shakespeare, who used similar expressions in his plays, linking the color to negative emotions. The idea is that the physical manifestation of envy can make a person look sickly, hence the association with a green hue. Over time, the expression became a common idiom in English to describe intense jealousy.
wealth and envy...(i envy you)
No. Green is the colour of ENVY I think purple is jealousy- or noble- I'm not sure but green is envy
Traditionally green.
My new Jimmy Choo's made Justine green with (in) envy. I turn green with (in) envy when I see others wearing designer jeans that I cannot afford.
maybe green to suit the phrase "green with envy"
Green with Envy - 2010 was released on: USA: April 2010
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The colour of envy is green, like the saying "green with envy". This is a question from a game called "Reverb". There was a man mentioned somewhere whose name is remarkably close to green...
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