a grey area
A situation without clear rules or boundaries, where the right answer is unclear.
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all cats are gray in the dark
Standard spelling of all cats are grey in the dark.
all cats are grey in the dark
Sex is enjoyable regardless of the physical attractiveness or social station of one's partner.
bang đỏ
(noun) red state
better dead than red
It is preferable to be deceased than to be a Communist or ruled by Communists.
between the devil and the deep blue sea
In a dilemma.
Big Blue 82
The BLU-82 bomb, known for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone.
Big Blue Machine
Any large regional police service.
blow me pink
An expression of surprise.
blue
To fight, brawl, or argue.
blue and green should never be seen
Fashion advice: blue and green clothing or accessories should not be worn together as they will clash.
blue angel
A blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus.
blue balls
A cramp-like ache in the testicles and prostate region caused by prolonged sexual arousal; testicles experiencing such an ache.
blue bean
Discomfort or swelling in the clitoris from prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.
blue bible
Synonym of Tijuana Bible (“kind of pornographic comic book”).
blue Billy
The refuse ammoniacal lime from gas factories.
blue blanket
A rough overcoat made of coarse pilot cloth.
Blue Cheer
A form of the drug LSD.
blue dart
Synonym of blue angel (“blue flame produced by lighting one's flatus”).
Blue Dragon Book
The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.
blue fever
Sexual attraction towards members of the police.
blue film
a pornographic film
blue fire
Sensational romanticism.
blue gum
A person of sub-Saharan African origin.
blue heaven
A capsule or tablet of amobarbital.
blue heeler
A police officer.
blue hen
A mare who benefits a breed by producing many high-quality offspring.
Blue Hen's Chicken
A person from Delaware.
Blue Magic
A potent form of heroin.
blue meanie
A police officer.
blue money
Money in the form of hundred-dollar bills.
blue movie
a pornographic film
blue pigeon
The lead used for sounding.
blue pigeon flyer
One who steals lead from the roof or other parts of a building.
blue pill
A pill of sildenafil (Viagra), used to treat erectile dysfunction.
blue room
The toilet or washroom on a passenger aircraft.
blue ruin
Low-end gin, usually home-made.
blue sky thinking
Idealistic or visionary ideas, not always with practical application (source: BBC).
blue Smarties
Something that causes great excitement or hyperactivity.
blue vulva
A cramplike ache in the vulval region caused by prolonged sexual arousal.
boy in blue
A policeman.
bánh đa đỏ
(noun) red rice noodles
bí đỏ
A pumpkin — the Southern word; Northerners say bí ngô.
bò đỏ
(noun) Vietnamese communist sympathizer
bóng hồng
(noun) girl; woman
bụi hồng
(noun) red dust
chè đậu đỏ
(noun) Hong dou tang (Chinese red bean soup)
chữ thập đỏ
(noun) alternative letter-case form of Chữ thập đỏ
con Lạc cháu Hồng
(noun) Vietnamese people of noble ancestry
con đỏ
(noun) commoners treated as "babies" by their protector, such as a monarch or a deity
cá diêu hồng
(noun) red tilapia
cá hồng
(noun) a red snapper
cá điêu hồng
(noun) red tilapia
cánh kiến đỏ
(noun) Kerria lacca
cờ đỏ sao vàng
(noun) the Gold-Starred Red Flag; the national flag of Vietnam
dago red
Cheap, inferior red wine.
don't buy green bananas
One should not make long-term plans, as one may not live or survive long enough to accomplish them.
dưa đỏ
(noun) watermelon
Fiddler's Green
A place of frolic on shore.
fly the blue pigeon
To steal lead from the roof or other parts of a building.
gay as pink ink
Overtly or flamboyantly homosexual.
gray
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
gray out
To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
green 'un
A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on green newsprint.
green army
The regular army, not including any special forces.
green as a gooseberry
Young and inexperienced.
green bean
A Roblox player wearing a green costume, symbolising support for Grow a Garden, a Roblox video game about growing plants.
Green Dragon Book
Principles of Compiler Design (1977), a notable textbook about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman.
green flag
Behaviors or personality traits that are considered positive, healthy, or desirable.
green girl
The green sleeping-blanket issued to cadets at a military academy.
green hornet
Bylaw officer.
green light
Permission to go ahead.
green out
To feel unwell or get sick as a result of using an excessive amount of cannabis.
green queen
A gay man who derives sexual pleasure from engaging in public sex in parks, near bushes and trees.
green stamp
A speeding ticket.
Green Tea
The ship of characters Izuku Midoriya and Ochako Uraraka from the My Hero Academia series.
green up
Of vegetation: to put forth new growth.
green weenie
An unfavorable or unpleasant situation or event.
green with envy
Very envious.
grey
Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
gà móng đỏ
(noun) whore; prostitute
gạo đỏ
(noun) red rice, especially rice of species Oryza rufipogon
hoa hồng
(noun) rose (flower)
hương nhu tía
(noun) holy basil, tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum)
hồng
(adjective) pink
hồng cầu
(noun) a red blood cell; an erythrocyte
hồng hoàng
(noun) great hornbill (Buceros bicornis)
hồng huyết cầu
(noun) red blood cell; erythrocyte
hồng hào
(adjective) pinkish in a way that indicates good health or beauty
hồng hạc
(noun) flamingo
hồng học
(noun) redology (The study of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber)
hồng lâu
(noun) a residence for noble women during feudal times
hồng mao
(noun) bean goose feathers
hồng ngoại
(adjective) infrared
hồng nhan
(noun) beautiful woman
hồng nhan hoạ thuỷ
charming beauty who makes men fall and leads to disasters (such as a loss of wealth or reputation, or a toppled nation); dangerous woman; femme fatale
hồng phiến
(noun) amphetamine
hồng quân
(noun) Red Army
hồng thuỷ
(noun) flood
hồng trà
(noun) black tea
hồng trần
(noun) bustling places
hồng táo
(noun) Chinese date (Ziziphus jujuba)
hồng tâm
(noun) bullseye
hồng vệ binh
(noun) hongweibing, red guard of China
hồng xiêm
Sapodilla — the Northern word; Southerners say sa bô chê.
hồng y
(noun) cardinal (official of the Catholic Church)
khai trương hồng phát
have a grand opening (used in congratulatory and celebratory settings)
khoan hồng
(verb) to be clement; to be merciful; to be lenient
killer green bud
Potent marijuana.
little blue pill
Synonym of blue pill (“pill of sildenafil (Viagra)”).
lòng đỏ
(noun) yolk (yellow of egg)
lằn ranh đỏ
(noun) red line
mellow yellow
A yellow police car used in South Africa.
má hồng
(noun) rosy cheeks; (figurative) young and beautiful women
máu đỏ
(noun) oxygenated blood
người da đỏ
(noun) redskin
nhạc đỏ
(noun) Vietnamese revolutionary music
nhẹ như lông hồng
(adjective) insignificant
not as green as one is cabbage-looking
Not as naive or foolish as might be expected.
once in a blue moon
Very rarely; almost never.
out of the blue
By surprise.
paint the town red
Go out and party.
parlor pink
An affluent person who professes leftist or socialist beliefs, but does not actively support them.
pink
An operative of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
pink 'un
A newspaper supplement or edition concerning sport, especially football, printed on pink newsprint.
pink taco
Synonym of taco (the vulva)
pink triangle
A homosexual.
Purple Dragon Book
The second edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2006), a notable textbook about compiler construction.
purple drank
A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.
purple heart
A drinamyl tablet when taken recreationally, popular in the 1960s.
purple helmet
The glans penis.
purple Jesus
A punch-like alcoholic drink made with grape juice.
purple nasty
Synonym of snakebite and black.
purple nurple
A school prank, the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger and then twisting it around roughly.
red as a beetroot
Bright red in color; used of the human face when a person is embarrassed.
red as a lobster
Bright red in color, especially from a bad sunburn.
red ball
A high-profile high-priority case which draws political or media attention.
red biddy
A cheap alcoholic drink made by mixing red wine and methylated spirit.
red cunt hair
An extremely small measurement.
red devil
A capsule of secobarbital sodium, especially when used as a recreational drug.
Red Dragon Book
The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986), a notable textbook about compiler construction.
red hat
A senior army officer.
red lead
Tomato ketchup.
Red Liner
An officer of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity.
red pill
Something that causes someone to believe in gynocentrism in modern society.
red rag
A person's tongue.
red rag to a bull
Something that will enrage another particular person.
red rocket
Any of the red-painted electrical streetcars and subway trams operated by the Toronto Transit Commission in Toronto, Canada, especially the classic models used during the early and mid-20th century.
Red Roof Inn
One of the outhouses with a red metal roof that have been built across Philmont Scout Ranch.
Red Sea
(A quantity of) blood discharged through the vagina during menstruation.
red tape
Bureaucracy.
red under the bed
An insidious communist presence; a communist who has infiltrated capitalist society.
red up
To become or make (something) red in color.
red wings
An instance of a male getting menstrual fluid on his face while performing cunnilingus.
roll out the red carpet
Welcome warmly.
sao khổng lồ đỏ
(noun) red giant
sao đỏ
(noun) students tasked with enforcing discipline standards and guidelines; school discipline monitors
sky blue
Milk excessively diluted with water, or from which the cream was too closely skimmed.
sói đỏ
(noun) dhole (Cuon alpinus)
sấu đỏ
(noun) santol (Sandoricum koetjape)
sổ hồng
(noun) synonym of giấy chứng nhận quyền sử dụng đất (“a certificate of landownership”)
sổ đỏ
(noun) synonym of sổ hộ khẩu (“a book that lists the hukou of all members of a family”)
the fox may grow grey but never good
One cannot change one's nature, no matter how much time passes.
the grey mare is the better horse
The wife, not the husband, is in charge of the household.
thuốc đỏ
(noun) povidone-iodine
thuỷ triều đỏ
(noun) red tide
thảm đỏ
(noun) red carpet
thấy đỏ tưởng chín
Mistaking red for ripe.
thần nanh đỏ mỏ
kind of bird-like monster in Vietnamese folklore that pecks the dead
thẻ vàng hoặc thẻ đỏ
yellow card or red card
thịt đỏ và thịt trắng
red meat and white meat
thủy triều đỏ
(noun) Traditional tone placement spelling of thuỷ triều đỏ (“red tide”).
tiểu bang đỏ
(noun) red state
trĩ đỏ
(noun) common pheasant
two in the pink, one in the stink
The sexual act of inserting two fingers in the vagina and one in the rectum.
tía
(noun) father; dad
tía lia
(adverb) very quickly and continuously
tía má ơi
Holy Mother of God!; Mother of mercy!; literally "Father and Mother!"
tía tô
(noun) perilla
tơ hồng
(noun) dodder (Cuscuta)
yellow bone
A light-skinned person of mixed ethnicity including black.
yellow boy
A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign.
yellow fever
An attraction to ethnically East Asian men or women, expressed by non-East Asian (especially white European male or white American) people.
yellow jacket
A capsule of pentobarbital sodium (or sometimes other barbiturates), especially when used as a recreational drug.
yellow off
To stop maturing prematurely and also usually die off.
yellow out
To become thoroughly yellow, such as drying tobacco leaves, ripening fruit or aging newspaper.
yellow sheet
A criminal record.
yellow up
To become or make (something) yellow, such as a material aging, a plant leaf or fruit ripening or developing a rust disease.
ăn hoa hồng
(verb) to receive or take a commission or brokerage fee from a transaction
Đen tình, đỏ bạc
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.
đen đỏ
(noun) alternative form of đỏ đen
đo đỏ
(adjective) diminutive reduplication of đỏ
đèn xanh đèn đỏ
(noun) traffic light
đèn xanh đỏ
(noun) traffic light
đèn đỏ
(noun) red light
đại hồng thuỷ
(noun) great flood, deluge (floods caused by divine forces to cleanse the land)
đại hồng thủy
(noun) Traditional tone placement spelling of đại hồng thuỷ.
đất đỏ
(noun) red soil
đậu đỏ
(noun) azuki bean
đắt đỏ
(adjective) dear; expensive