1. “balloon colored”? Shouldn’t that be “balloon coloured?” Someone is trying to appeal to her readers from the States.
2. “Rose-coloured glasses” or “rose-tinted glasses” is the original idiom. Looking up the origin of the phrase, I find that in the 1800s, people started using tinted lenses (of various colours) for therapeutic purposes. Tinted glasses were believed to work against a number of maladies (such as jaundice, apparently). Learn something new.
3. Somewhere out there, people who live in a red state in the US are getting a good laugh from this comic strip. However, they should bear in mind that in Canadian politics, red means the Liberals, blue the Conservatives, yellow means the defunct Socreds and orange means the NDP.
1. “balloon colored”? Shouldn’t that be “balloon coloured?” Someone is trying to appeal to her readers from the States.
2. “Rose-coloured glasses” or “rose-tinted glasses” is the original idiom. Looking up the origin of the phrase, I find that in the 1800s, people started using tinted lenses (of various colours) for therapeutic purposes. Tinted glasses were believed to work against a number of maladies (such as jaundice, apparently). Learn something new.
3. Somewhere out there, people who live in a red state in the US are getting a good laugh from this comic strip. However, they should bear in mind that in Canadian politics, red means the Liberals, blue the Conservatives, yellow means the defunct Socreds and orange means the NDP.