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by FauxLo on January 9th, 2008

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What, besides me, makes you GREEN with envy?

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  • by VSPrasad on January 11th, 2008

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    Color Psychology - Green

    Consider how green is used in language: green thumb, green with envy, greenhorn.

    http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/color_green.htm

    In many Western cultures the feelings of envy or jealousy are commonly associated with the color green.

    This association first appeared in the seventh century B.C., according to etymologists Judith S. Neaman and Carole G. Silver, as the poet Sappho described a stricken lover’s appearance as “green.” At that time the words “green” and “pale” were often used interchangeably.

    Other literary figures followed suit. The familiar expression “green-eyed monster” was adopted from a line in Shakespeare’s play Othello:

    O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
    It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
    The meat it feeds on.

    Similarly, in his play Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare described envy as “the green sickness.”

    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/03/color-legends-green-with-envy/

    "It turned Brer Merlin green with envy and spite, which was a great satisfaction to me." A Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain

    "Green with envy" was a colorful term used long before Mark Twain wrote these words about jealousy in the late-1800s. Today, the saying means that one is envious or covetous of someone or something.

    If one is bitten "by the green-eyed monster," it's thought they are consumed with jealousy. With envy being one of the deadly sins, there's been a lot written about it since the beginning of time.
    Color me "Green with envy"

    If you go back a few hundred years to the 16th and 17th centuries, great authors such as Shakespeare and Chaucer wrote of characters who were green with envy.

    Shakespeare uses green to describe jealousy at least three times in his works. In Othello, Iago refers to the "green-eyed monster." In Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare wrote of the "green sickness," meaning jealousy. And in Merchant of Venice, he used the term "green-eyed jealousy."

    Long before Shakespeare connected green with jealousy, the color was more commonly used to describe illness. Sources such as Who Put the Butter in Butterfly by David Feldman claim the early Greeks interchanged "green" and "pale" to mean sickly. The Greeks thought that when you were ill or jealous, the body produced too much bile, giving the skin a green tint.

    And while many sources are content to let Shakespeare take credit for inventing the idea of a person turning green with envy, a Greek poet beat him to the punch more than 2,000 years earlier. Sappho wrote of a forlorn lover being green in one of her works dating back to the seventh century B.C.E.

    http://www.sensationalcolor.com/content/view/1072/144/

    Have you ever been “green with envy” or “felt blue”? Have you been accused of looking at the world through “rose colored glasses”? All of us have heard these and other similar expressions before.

    http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/academics/hohonu/writing.php?id=73

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  • by Lovehearts on January 9th, 2008

    Lovehearts

    BESIDES you? You had to make it difficult now, didn't you...

    I'll come back when I think of something.

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