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Originally Posted by slayda
Learning a new word through context can cause errors. For years I thought that the phrase "livid with anger" meant "red in the face" because that's what I saw when people became angry.  Many of the people around me thought the same. I was astonished when I looked it up and discovered that it meant "white with anger".  |
It actually means neither - it means "to be of a bluish colour", from Latin "lividus" - "blue".