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Pass over pink at your own peril. What are some words or phrases – current and old-fashioned-  that are inspired by the colour pink?

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Carnation
In olde times this described gradations of colour in flesh 👀

Got A Pink Slip
Just got fired

Have A Pink Fit
It’s temper tantrum time

In the Pink
In great health

Pinken
To become pink

Pink Future
An enviable, fabulous future

Pink Tax
When goods or services for women are artificially inflated in price vs. similar items for men

Pink of Perfection
The most perfect of perfect

Race for Pinks
A street race where the loser has to forfeit their car to the winner

Roseate
Excessively optimistic. Rose-coloured

Seeing Pink Elephants
Alcohol-fueled hallucinations

Strike Me Pink
I’m surprised, annoyed, distressed

The Very Pink
It’s the ultimate. Ask none other than Shakespeare. In his ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Mercutio says: “ Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.”

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