Get the green light - If you get the green light to do something, you are given the necessary permission, authorisation.
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Green around the gills - If someone looks green around the gills, they look ill.
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Green fingers - (UK) Someone with green fingers has a talent for gardening.
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Green light - If you are given the green light, you are given approval to do something.
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Green thumb - (USA) Someone with a talent for gardening has a green thumb.
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Green with envy - If you are green with envy, you are very jealous.
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Green-eyed monster - The green-eyed monster is an allegorical phrase for somebody's strong jealousy
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Put more green into something - (USA) To put more green into something is to spend more or to increase investment in it.
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Walk the green mile - Someone or something that is walking the green mile is heading towards the inevitable.
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In literature:
The wild duck had beautiful green and brown feathers and on his head he had a little green top-knot.
"Here and Now Story Book" by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
His pale yellow-green crown is mysteriously tinged with white.
"The Book of the National Parks" by Robert Sterling Yard
The river and some oleander-bushes, with green lawns between them, offered all we wanted.
"In the Tail of the Peacock" by Isabel Savory
All the rest of that day we were running so near the Florida coast that we could see the green trees on shore.
"Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California" by Mary Evarts Anderson
The green track crosses the railway cutting, and so journeys on into Titsey Park on the level lowland.
"Highways and Byways in Surrey" by Eric Parker
On a newly-cut green there are stripes of different shades of green.
"The Complete Golfer [1905]" by Harry Vardon
He spoke briefly to an officer seated at a table, dressed like himself in red turban and green tunic.
"The Saracen: Land of the Infidel" by Robert Shea
Standing in the crumpled heap of orange and green silk that was her shawl, she turned her back to him.
"The Saracen: The Holy War" by Robert Shea
It was a hideous green, a green of diabolical intensity.
"Peter the Brazen" by George F. Worts
White contrasts with green and harmonizes with pea-green.
"Social Life" by Maud C. Cooke
At last the snow melted, the prairie took on a sheen of green, the tree burst into bud, and birds returned to sing once more.
"Valley of Wild Horses" by Zane Grey
The color of the latter is green or dark green.
"The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise" by M. E. Hard
Green sauce, for green geese or ducklings ib.
"The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;" by Charlotte Campbell Bury
When we beached I sprang ashore and ran up the sand to the edge of green.
"Tales of Fishes" by Zane Grey
One day it came to a desert island, where no living person could be seen, nor any green tree to light upon.
"Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17)" by Various
Leaves large, thin; upper surface light green; lower surface gray-green.
"Manual of American Grape-Growing" by U. P. Hedrick
There have been Lady Brabazon, and Mrs. Patmore Green, and Mrs. Montacute Jones.
"Is He Popenjoy?" by Anthony Trollope
W. G. Gano: Good family apple; green; subacid; elegant in quality.
"The Apple" by Various
It is green in the midst, with green lines and longitudinal rows of strong dark brown spots.
"The Woodlands Orchids" by Frederick Boyle
It turned out that through Professor Green her room had been engaged since early the winter before.
"Molly Brown's Sophomore Days" by Nell Speed
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In poetry:
Green, thro a torii, the way
Leads to it, worn, across
A rivulet whose voice intones
With mystery of moss.
"A Nikko Shrine" by Cale Young Rice
They have forgone that bliss
Till they have seen once more
The little land of peace,
Green and bright as of yore.
"The Wild Geese" by Katharine Tynan
No shout of home-bound reapers,
No vintage-song he heard,
And on the green no dancing feet
The merry violin stirred.
"Cobbler Keezar's Vision" by John Greenleaf Whittier
When in the shadow of the tomb,
My heart shall rest,
Please lay me where spring flowers bloom
On earth's green breast.
"Ajax' Monument" by Frank Barbour Coffin
Beauty runs virgin in the woods
Robed in her rustic green,
And oft a longing thought intrudes,
As if we might have seen.
"After A Lecture On Wordsworth" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wherever Harry meets me,
Beside the brook or on the green,
How tenderly he greets me!
What can it mean--what can it mean?
"What Can It Mean?" by George Pope Morris
In news:
Green Bay — Guard / center Jason Spitz signed his tender on Monday and will begin voluntary workouts with the Green Bay Packers on Tuesday, a source said.
They were green long before it was cool to be green.
GREEN BAY, Wis.--The Green Bay Police Department reports the arrest of a man for allegedly driving under the influence for the fifth time.
FRIANT, Calif.–"Making Green on 'Green,'" a seminar on marketing "green" bedding products, will be offered at the upcoming Las Vegas Market by the Specialty Sleep Association ( SSA ).
Green/ Steinbeck Tim and Mary Steinbeck of Elk River announce the engagement of their son, Geoffrey Paul Steinbeck of St Paul, to Shana Holly Green of Minneapolis, daughter of Rich and Jeanne Green of Sioux Falls S.D.
Ask Pat Green about the best advice he ever got from his dad, the one pearl of wisdom he plans to pass on to his own son, Kellis Patrick Green (born Oct 27, 2003), and he doesn't have to think long.
1 bunch green onions (light green portion), finely chopped.
Lime green is the color for mantle cell lymphoma and Pete Lykins' sons and friends donned lime green to rally in support of Pete's fight against the disease.
Gallery Place-Chinatown (Red, Green and Yellow lines), Archives-Navy Memorial (Green and Yellow lines), Federal Triangle (Blue and Orange lines).
Vandals went on a joy ride through the greens of Cokato Town and Country Club early Tuesday morning damaging a golf cart, sprinklers, and the greens.
The WD Caviar Green 2 TB, part of the company's cool and quiet WD Caviar Green family, is shipping and is priced at $299.00.
GREEN BAY, Wis.--The Ray Nitschke Bridge in downtown Green Bay will close on Tuesday.
Who's That: Model Topaz Page-Green Topaz Page-Green is a model on a mission.
Cups frozen cut green beans or Italian green beans.
The blue signs in the median along highway 41 has some seeing green, too much green.
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In science:
Here the o(1) term becomes smal l when the expected number of sampled red bal ls, sampled green bal ls, unsampled red bal ls, and unsampled green bal ls are each large.
On the critical exponents of random k-SAT
The second approach to incorporating space-time supersymmetry into string theory is the Green-Schwarz formalism (Green and Schwarz, 1984a, 1984b), in which the target space supersymmetry of the theory is manifest.
M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory
Green function of Gpγ as the Green function of a symmetric random walk plus a killing.
Ballistic random walks in random environment at low disorder
Liebert et al. (2003) have recently obtained high S/N spectroscopy of all DA white dwarfs identified in the Palomar-Green (PG) survey (Green et al. 1986).
On the Purity of the ZZ Ceti Instability Strip: Discovery of More Pulsating DA White Dwarfs on the Basis of Optical Spectroscopy
We cal l Gfff the Green function for fff , and Tfff the Green current for fff .
Canonical heights for random iterations in certain varieties
Note that in C1 the pluricomplex potential is just the ordinary Green potential (or minus the ordinary Green potential, depending on taste).
Pluricomplex charge at weak singularities
The only vertex at level 1 that is green is the first one to be visited by X. A vertex µ, with |µ| ≥ 2, is green iff it is visited before time Hpar(µ) and its parent is green.
On the transience of processes defined on Galton--Watson trees
Using a G-invariant Riemannian metric on M one defines Hodge star operator ∗, adjoint operator d∗ , the Laplacian △, and Green’s operator G. (It should be clear from the context where G is the Lie group and where G is Green’s operator.) Since the metric is G-invariant, ∗, d∗ , △, and G are all G-equivariant operators.
Generalized geometry, equivariant $\bar{\partial}\partial$-lemma, and torus actions
This allows us to limit ourselves to consider the expression of the Green function at a fixed time, say t = 1 , namely to the so-called reduced Green function.
Discrete random walk models for space-time fractional diffusion
Our proofs rely on a restriction-type Fourier analytic argument of Green and Green-Tao.
Arithmetic structures in random sets
As in (A.3) let g (s, t) be the Green function of the random walk ¯Y j for the halfline (−∞, r0 ], and let ˜g(s, t) be the Green function for the complement of the interval [r0 + 1, r ].
Almost sure functional central limit theorem for non-nestling random walk in random environment
Gσ;∞1 (k) corresponding to the Green function in Eq. (6.242) to coincide with that of the exact Green function.
On the Luttinger theorem concerning number of particles in the ground states of systems of interacting fermions
For these Hamiltonians the corresponding Green functions do not explicitly depend on N ; for mean-field Hamiltonians, these Green functions implicitly depend of N only for one specific value of N , say N0 , so that they remain unchanged upon changing N from N0 to N0 ± 1.
On the Luttinger theorem concerning number of particles in the ground states of systems of interacting fermions
Further, since zero-temperature Green functions do not explicitly depend on µ, the differences between the chemicals corresponding to N0 - and N0 ± 1particle GSs, discussed in the previous paragraph, have no impact on the behaviours of these Green functions.
On the Luttinger theorem concerning number of particles in the ground states of systems of interacting fermions
The green open squares are the 5 RCBs found in the SMC (Tisserand et al. 2004) and the full green square is the SMC RCB star MSX-SMC-014 (Kraemer et al. 2005).
R Coronae Borealis stars in the Galactic Bulge discovered by EROS-2
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