Test No. [color=blue]incompl/inter-2 “Like a red rag”, question 8
As they turned round and ran away, people thought they were ….
(a) red
(b) blue
(c) white
(d) yellow
Test No. [color=blue]incompl/inter-2 “Like a red rag”, answer 8
As they turned round and ran away, people thought they were yellow.
Correct answer: (d) yellow
Hi all!!! “They were yellow” What is it?
Tell me, please
Pupil
Hi Pupil,
‘Yellow’ simply means having no courage - being a coward.
Alan
Hi Alan. I was very surprised. Thank you
Pupil
When I answered this question, I thought yellow means crazy. 
:lol: there is a expression that looks like this in my language, as I understood, it migh be, to be afraid of something.
Dear all,
In Taiwan, yellow means pornography such as, yellow books, yello movies, or yellow video.
Dear all,
There is a lot of mining of yellow color. even yellow means pornography. in my language pornography is blue.
Thank you.
Im fr Turkey not animal, only Turkey:D In my language It doesnt mean pornography or any color doesnt means any mean.My language is innocent:)
That’s actually funny because in my language (Portuguese) the pornography colour is pink.
In my country Albania,yellow it means jealous.
Admira
I don’t exactly get it. Does yellow mean crazy in this sentance?
thank you in advance
In my country yellow means yellow lol =)
And for Salnatkas yellows means “being a coward” in the sentence…
As they turned round and ran away, people thought they were …
Shouldn’t we use ‘turned around’ instead of ‘turned round’ in this sentence?
Hi Skifond, they are interchangeable in this context.
To me, this sentence is definatly involved with race, obviously someone was shocked and ran from it, the expression would be all depends on person’s skin color. I’m sure Yellow people won’t use an expression as yellow, if they have seen somethings and ran from it, just like whites couldn’t use white so they decide to go with yellow!!! plus i’m sure blacks won’t use white or yellow or black?!
There is no definitive answer to this. A number of different references to appear to have grown up independently of each other.
In the US in the 1840s, the term was used to describe Mexicans, who would soon be at war with the US.
In Britain at the same time, the term was used to describe people born in Lincolnshire (they had a yellow complexion), though it was not linked to the idea of cowardice.
However, there is a much earlier reference which has also been put forward as a theory:
The medieval theory of medicine assumed there were four humors (fluids) in the body. These determined the physical and mental condition of the person. If they got out of balance, you got sick or went insane.
The four humors were blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile. Yellow bile (choler from the Greek kholos for gall) made you peevish, irascible and inconsistent of character. The disease cholera got its name from the symptom of yellowish diarrhoea. So yellow became a symbol of jealousy and cowardice.
In the Philippines, the color yellow prevails nowadays and it represent courage… for fighting against corruption. So I was surprised to find out just today that yellow represent cowardness. funny.
This is the first time I 've seen the idom “they were yellow”. I didn’t know that this colour had this kind of connotation.
In my country, in others Asian countries either, yellow is color of royal, the light of glory, blah blah.
but if someone get an ill, he also in yellow or green
I think white is color of coward, like white-flag :D, so I chose white, so … incorrect
Hi
the yellow refer to “being pale of fear”. they were frighten so they escape! isn’t so?