“The Green Revolution” is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. “The Green Revolution” was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had “green thumbs.”
Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, jealousy. The “green-eyed monster” is not a frightening creature from outer space; it is an expression used about 400 years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello.”
The famed Martin Droeshout engraving of William Shakespeare, printed on the cover of Shakespeare's first Folio, or first complete collection of his plays, printed in 1623.
It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the “green-eyed monster” if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that “green-eyed monster” may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.
In most places in the world, a “green light” is a signal to move ahead. A “green light” on a traffic signal means your car can continue on. In everyday speech, a “green light” means “approval to continue with a project.” We want you to know we have “a green light” to continue this series next week.
This VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories was written by Marilyn Christiano. I’m Warren Scheer.
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