to go red as a beetroot
- Fuente de la expresión
- DUE
- Estructura completa
- (Someone) to go red as a beetroot
- Variantes
- to go as red as a beetroot
- Contexto
- On our return, at the station, before leaving China, all the French people, men and women, came up to kiss her. The young girl, surprised on the spur of the moment, went red as a beetroot, stood as still as a statue and let herself be kissed, not knowing what to do. The young girl was embarrassed because in China, the act of men and women kissing has a connotation of love.
- Fuente del contexto
- Google Books
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- Lihua Zheng
- Título de la fuente
- Intercultural Communication between Chinese and French
- Año
- 2019
- Web
- https://books.google.es/books?id=qva-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT65&lpg=PT65&dq=%22went+red+as+a+beetroot%22&source=bl&ots=9pDRAX2U6Z&sig=ACfU3U0ZzqDa5OaeAzORb6USL4sStklqnA&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmk66j9eHtAhUYi1wKHTFUA644FBDoATAAegQIARAC#v=onepage&q=%22went%20red%20as%20a%20beetroot%22&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente