Colours

      Today, we all are celebrating the auspicious festival of colours - Holi. This festival signifies the victory of good over evil. Also it is the arrival of the spring with the end of winter. Holika Dahan is on the previous night but people are always eagerly waiting for the next day which is the actual play. Balloons, Tanks of coloured water are prepared in advance, the music is all set and then its a splash of colours. There is no age or gender or caste differences on whether who should play Holi its a festival for all alike. There are all colours sprayed around today so I decided to give you a list of colours that we use in the English language to make it colourful.
1. When someone is in the best of health, we say the person is in the pink of health.
2. When something happens suddenly, we say it happened out of the blue or whether we want to tell  about an action that we do very rarely we say once in a blue moon. 
3.  When something is no longer useful to us, we call it a white elephant or when you tell a lie which is negligible and does not cause much harm is called a white lie.
4.  If you catch a person doing something wrong in front of you, you have caught him red handed.
5.  A clever person is said to have a lot of grey matter.
6.  Someone who brings shame to the family by doing wrong things is said to be the black sheep of    the family.
7.  A person from the royal family is said to have blue blood.
8.  When an instruction or a message is given very clearly, it is said to be given in black and white.
9.  When you are jealous of someone you go green with envy.
 
   I conclude by wishing you all a very Happy Holi. May this festival of colours bring the the colours of love, happiness and prosperity in all you lives