Green Means Spring and Other Things - March 07, 2025

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1. 0:08Now, the VOA Learning English program, Words and Their Stories.
2. 0:18Today, we talk about a color found all throughout nature,
3. 0:23green. Green is also very common in American English.
4. 0:29Let's hear Warren Scheer read a story about these colorful expressions.
5. 0:35Green is an important color in nature.
6. 0:41It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees.
7. 0:46It is also the color of most growing plants.
8. 0:52Sometimes the word green means young, fresh, and growing.
9. 1:00Sometimes it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished.
10. 1:07For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience,
11. 1:14who is new to a situation.
12. 1:18In the 15th century, century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed.
13. 1:28A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience
14. 1:36in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today,
15. 1:45a person who is knew in a job.
16. 1:51About one hundred years ago,
17. 1:54greenhorn was a popular expression in the American West.
18. 2:00Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.
19. 2:09The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
20. 2:18Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.
21. 2:27The expression comes from the early 1900s.
22. 2:32A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well.
23. 2:42You might say that the woman next store has a green thumb if her garden continues
24. 2:48to grow long after your plants have died.
25. 2:54The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice
26. 3:02and other grains.
27. 3:05The new plants produced much larger crops.
28. 3:09The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists
29. 3:16who had green thumbs.
30. 3:21Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion jealousy.
31. 3:28The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space.
32. 3:33It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare
33. 3:41in his play Othello.
34. 3:45It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants.
35. 3:55A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.
36. 4:04Or that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.
37. 4:14In most places in the world, a green light is assigned to move ahead.
38. 4:22A green light on a traffic signal means your car can continue on.
39. 4:28In everyday speech, a green light means approval to continue with a project.
40. 4:35We want you to know we have a green light to continue this series next week.
41. 4:44And that's all the time we have for this Words and Their Stories.
42. 4:48Don't forget to tune in again for another story about American English expressions.
43. 4:54Until next time, I'm Anna Matteo.