Esl In Ho Chi Minh City

This ESL podcast will teach several idioms using the word "blue" and puts your learning to the test with a dictation exercise. The color blue is one of the three primary colors. Blue has many different shades; such as sky blue, baby blue and navy blue. Blue can be associated with royalty, but it is also the color of the common man. Almost everyone, rich or poor, owns a pair of blue jeans. Blue is, of course, one of the more attractive eye colors. However, if any other part of your body were blue, it would mean something is very wrong. This is evident in many blue expressions and idioms. Here are some commmon expressions using the word blue: to feel blue = to feel sad to turn blue = to become cold to go blue = to become cold a blue blood = someone of the highest social class a blue-collar worker = someone who does physical work, often in a factory to be black and blue = to be severely bruised or to be bruised all over a blue-eyed boy = a man favored by someone in authority the boys in blue = the police