IDIOMS WITH WHITE
1) The Idiom: as white as a ghost
Meaning: very pale because of shock, fear and illness
Sample Sentence: The thief was as white as a ghost when a policeman came near him.
Turkish Equivalence: beti benzi atmak
2) The Idiom: as white as a sheet
Meaning: pale
Sample Sentence: Jane was as white as a sheet because of the illness she had suffered for months.
3) The Idiom: as white as the driven snow/white as a driven snow
Meaning: very white
Sample Sentence: His new pullover is as white as driven snow.
Turkish Equivalence: kar gibi bembeyaz, tertemiz
4) The Idiom: black and white
Meaning:either good or bad, either one way or the other way but not in between
Sample Sentence: He thinks everything is black and white by prejudging the things or situations before.
Turkish Equivalence: bir şeyi ya iyi olarak görmek ya da kötü olarak görmek, akla kara
5) The Idiom: in black and white
Meaning: in writing, officially
Sample Sentence: I handed in my term homework in black and white.
Turkish Equivalence: yazıyla, yazılı olarak
6) The Idiom : white elephant
Meaning: a useless, an unwanted possession that often costs money to maintain
Sample Sentence: Your car is a white elephant, as it often breaks down, causing you too much expenditure.
Turkish Equivalence: sahibinin işine yaramayan, sahibi için dert olan, fuzuli eşya
7) The Idiom: put (something) down in black and white
Meaning: to write the details of a contract or something on paper
Sample Sentence: Can you put this job’s contract down in black and white?
8) The Idiom: raise a white flag
Meaning: to indicate that you have been defeated and you want to give up
Sample Sentence: After we captured them, they had to raise a white flag.
Turkish Equivalence: teslim olmak
9) The Idiom: white lie
Meaning: a harmless or small lie told to be polite or to avoid hurting someone’s feelings
Sample Sentence: He told a white lie when his father asked where he was going.
Turkish Equivalence: zararsız yalan, beyaz yalan
10) The Idiom: white sale
Meaning: the selling of towels or sheets at a reduced price
Sample Sentence: My mother bought three towels and two sheets at white sale.
Turkish Equivalence: örtü, çarşaf, havlu satımı
11) The Idiom: white-tie event
Meaning: an event that requires guests to wear formal dress such as men wearing white bow ties with formal evening dress
Sample Sentence: There was a white-tie wedding ceremony last week which I had to attend.
12) The Idiom: whitewash (something)
Meaning: to cover up errors, faults; camouflage
Sample Sentence: The man over there tried to whitewash the selling of prohibited products.
Turkish Equivalence: örtbas etmeye çalışmak
13) The Idiom: lily-white
Meaning: completely white in color
Sample Sentence: She touched the lily-white face of this newborn child.
Turkish Equivalence: bembeyaz, zambak gibi beyaz
14) The Idiom: the men in white coats
Meaning: doctors who look after people who are mentally ill
Sample: You are joking! If this is true, you must be under the control of the men in white coats.
Turkish Equivalence: deli doktoru
15) The Idiom: pretend that black is white
Meaning: to say the opposite of what is really true
Sample Sentence: He pretended that black is white to make her believe him.
Turkish Equivalence: tersini söylemek
16) The Idiom: a white knight
Meaning: someone who gives money to a company in order to prevent it from being bought by another company
Sample Sentence: They are waiting for a white knight to save them from the necessity of selling their company to their rivals.
17) The Idiom: white trash (very informal)
Meaning: an offensive way of describing poor white people who are not educated
Sample Sentence: The rate of the white trash living in America shouldn’t be underestimated.
Turkish Equivalence: beyaz ırktan olan fakirler
18) The Idiom: white-bread
Meaning: white-bread people or things are ordinary and boring, and often those that are typical of white, American people
Sample Sentence: I wonder how these white-bread people’s lives can be so ordinary.
19) The Idiom: white-collar worker
Meaning: a white-collar worker is someone who works in an office, doing mental work rather than physical work
Sample Sentence: Do the white-collar workers earn more than those working physically?
Turkish Equivalence: beyaz yakalı, kol gücü yerine kafa gücünü kullanarak çalışan kimse
20) The Idiom: black-and-white
Meaning: If you think facts and situations are black and white, you have a simple and very certain opinion about them, often when other people think they are really more complicated. A very clear choice that cause no confusion
Sample Sentence: It is black-and-white for me to comment on political issues.
Turkish Equivalence: kesin bir dille, kesin belirlemelerle
21) The Idiom: lily-white
Meaning: having only white people near, often because of a wish to keep black people away
Sample Sentence: Is it possible to see a black and a white person close to each other in this lily-white area?
22) The Idiom: whiter than white
Meaning: someone who is whiter than whiter is completely good and honest and never does anything bad
Sample Sentence: If you have a friend who is whiter than white is, then he or she is a real friend for you.
23) The Idiom: like white on rice
Meaning: If you do something like white on rice, you do it very closely.
Sample Sentence: While going to school in the morning, Daniel walked near Jane like white on rice.
24) The Idiom: tell a white lie
Meaning: to say something isn’t true in order not to offend someone
Sample Sentence: Although Mary’s drawing isn’t very good, I told a white lie in order not to make her feel disappointed.
Turkish Equivalence: beyaz yalan söylemek
25) The Idiom: wave the white flag
Meaning: to give up, weaken, yield
Sample Sentence: I decided to wave the white flag and admit that he was right at that point.
Turkish meaning: teslim olmak, teslim etmek
26) The Idiom: carte blanche (written in French)
Meaning: permission to do what you want
Sample Sentence: I got carte blanche to do what I wanted after I was eighteen years old.
Turkish Equivalence: sınırsız özgürlük
27) The Idiom: white feather
Meaning: the sign of cowardice
Sample Sentence: I saw white feather in his eyes that he wasn’t brave enough to deal with that situation.
Turkish Equivalence: korkaklık alameti
28) The Idiom: white-livered
Meaning: someone who is scared of almost everything
Sample Sentence: She is so white-livered that she may scream when she hears any noise in her house.
Turkish Equivalence: korkak, ödlek
29) The Idiom: white at the lips
Meaning: someone who is frightened so much
Sample Sentence: When she came across with a brutal dog in that abandoned house, she was white at the lips.
Turkish Equivalence: çok korkmuş, korkudan benzi sararmış
30) The Idiom: white as wool
Meaning: As white as snow, very white
Sample Sentence: Her sheets are white as wool, since she often washes them.
Turkish Equivalence: pamuk gibi beyaz
31) The Idiom: white-tie affair
Meaning: its meaning is the same with white-tie event; something requires people to wear formal dress.
Sample Sentence: My friend had to go to that white-tie affair dinner even if he didn’t like wearing formally.
32) The Idiom: lily-white
Meaning: completely honest
Sample Sentence: He is not a lily-white. I saw him going out last night, but he said he had been ill and would be resting at home.
33) The Idiom: white head
Meaning: pimple with a head full of pus
Sample Sentence: How is he so easy when he is a whitehead? I think he should see a doctor.
34) The Idiom: white-faced
Meaning: very frightened
Sample Sentence: When she got word of her husband death, she became white-faced.
Turkish Equivalence: beti benzi atmış, yüzü bembeyaz olmuş
35) The Idiom: bleed somebody white
Meaning: to take someone’s whole money
Sample Sentence: He bled his brother white by taking all of his money.
Turkish Equivalence: soyup soğana çevirmek, bütün parasını almak
36) The Idiom: white light
Meaning: light that is as white as sunshine
Sample Sentence: I couldn’t make it out in that white light.
Turkish Equivalence: güneş ışığı gibi bembeyaz ışık
37) The Idiom: white heat
Meaning: anger that is at the top point
Sample Sentence: He has so white heat that, don’t try to argue with him about any simple matter.
Turkish Equivalence: şiddetli öfke
38) The Idiom: see things in black and white
Meaning: to have a simple view of what is right and wrong or good and bed
Sample Sentence: He has the ability of seeing things in black and white, so he doesn’t confuse his mind much about the complicated issues.
39) The Idiom: show the white feather
Meaning: If someone shows the white feather, they are cowards.
Sample Sentence: He showed the white feather by giving up that important project.
Turkish Equivalence: gözü korkmak
40) The Idiom: white –headed boy
Meaning: someone who is seen at the top by other people
Sample Sentence: John is white-headed boy in our school, so everybody knows him.
Turkish Equivalence: gözde kişi
41) The Idiom: be bleed white
Meaning:
Sample Sentence:
Turkish Equivalence: iliği kemiği kurumak
42) The Idiom: white man
Meaning: an honest, honorable man
Sample Sentence: He had lived as a white man until he died.
43) The Idiom: show/hoist the white flag
Meaning: to declare that you give up
Sample Sentence: I didn’t want to argue with you anymore, so I showed the white flag.
Turkish Equivalence: teslim olmak
44) The Idiom: say that black is white
Meaning: to say the opposite of the true things
Sample Sentence: He has a tendency to say that black is white in order to deceive people around him.
Turkish Meaning: bir şeyin tersini söylemek
45) The Idiom: go as white as a sheet
Meaning: become extremely pale in the face
Sample Sentence: While she was talking to phone, she went as white as a sheet.
46) The Idiom: white coffee
Meaning: coffee with milk (note: not white tea; instead; tea with milk)
Sample Sentence: I prefer white coffee to bitter coffee.
47) The Idiom: dirty-white-collar workers
Meaning: dirty-white-collar workers are the ones at the position of executive or management, doing illegal works and tricking other people
Sample Sentence: If people tried to do their jobs honestly and fairly, there wouldn’t be as many dirty-white-collar workers as now.
Turkish Equivalence: yönetici ya da yetkili durumunda olup üçkağıt ve kanunsuz yollara sapmış olanlar
48) The Idiom: to work in black and white
Meaning: Chinese ink
Sample Sentence: I have to work in black and white for my written assignment.
Turkish Equivalence: çini mürekkebi; karakalemle resim yapmak
49) The Idiom: black and white
Meaning: shown in black and white, and also grey
Sample Sentence: I like looking at these black and white photos again and again.
Turkish Equivalence: siyah beyaz, renksiz
50) The Idiom: whitey
Meaning: an offensive word for a white person or white people in general
Sample Sentence: Black people look down on whitey people.
Turkish Equivalence: ırkçı beyaz, siyah ırka baskı yapan kimse
REFERENCES:
http://www.idiomconnection.com
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/
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