ive never got this saying. i get red with anger coz red=fire and "feelin blue" coz blue is a sad colour but can someone explain "green with envy"
2006-08-21 04:03:59 · 3 answers · asked by clutterbug84 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Apparently it comes from the Greek. The Greeks believed that jealousy was accompanied by an overproduction of bile, lending a pallid green cast to the victim. This was referenced in Greek literature and subsequently picked up by English writers, notably Shakespeare.
2006-08-21 04:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Envy's like a sickness, you're fixated and monster like. It's often called the green monster as well.
2006-08-21 04:12:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
um No it skill saving ability and ability saving products that are sturdy for the earth and ecology. that is like replacing a old gas guzzling 1960's bus with a gas saving hybrid bus It has no longer something to do with envy in any respect
2016-11-26 21:19:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green in this context = Seriously envious.
2006-08-21 04:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by zd_sr1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY,
YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT WHEN I'M ANGRY,
I TURN ALL GREEN WITH RIPPLING MUSCLES
COSTS ME A SMALL FORTUNE IN SHIRTS AND TROUSERS
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'M AWAY FOR AN INCREDIBLE SULK
2006-08-21 04:21:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably for the same reason yellow is associated with cowardliness.
Bizarre indeed.
2006-08-21 04:13:35 · answer #6 · answered by Wafflebox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋