Idioms with colours - Expresiones con colores

A list of useful idioms referring to colours

Vocab

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Un príncipe azul		Prince Charming
Ver todo de color de rosa		To see things through rose-tinted spectacles/ look on the bright side of life
Ver todo de color negro		To feel hopeless, in a black mood
Un viejo verde		Dirty old man
Ir de punta en blanco		Dress up to the nines
Ponerse rojo,a como un tomate		To blush, to go as red as a beetroot
Quedarse en blanco		To go blank
La prensa amarilla		Yellow press [US: tabloid press]
Ponerse morado,a		To pig out
Vestirse de blanco		To get married
Poner verde a alguien		To say nasty things about someone
Estar como una rosa		To be as fresh as a daisy
Estar en números rojos		To be in the red (overdrawn, in debt)
Ser de sangre azul		To have blue (royal) blood
Comerse un marrón		To assume responsibility for something negative
Un chiste verde		Dirty joke
La prensa rosa		Gossip magazines
Dinero negro		Black money