Redewendungen mit "rot" (Deutsch C1, B2): rotes Tuch, roter Faden, rot sehen und mehr

Hello and welcome to the next part of my series German idioms. I'm Rieke and I've already shown you idioms with the color blue the last time. You can see the link to the video here or up here. And today we'll continue with the color red. Red means something negative in many idioms. For example, to be in a red cloth. A red cloth is a thing or a person that makes someone very angry, that annoys or provokes someone. For example, we say Maria's brother is like a red cloth to me. And that means Maria's brother makes me angry. I don't like him at all. Or politicians are like a red cloth to me. Or social media are a red cloth to me. That means I don't like social media and that's why I don't use them. This conversation with the red cloth comes from the battle of the bulls. The bullfighter waddles with a red cloth. The bull gets angry and runs away. By now you know that this has nothing to do with the color of the cloth. Because bulls can't see red at all. It's much more the movement of the cloth that attracts the bull. But we still used the conversation with the red cloth. We also have another conversation that has its origin in the bullfight. And that is seeing red. Seeing red means that you get very angry and lose control. So you are in the position of the bull, who sees the cloth and runs away angrily. I can say, for example, When I see someone beating his dog, I see red. Or when his colleague insulted him, he saw red and beat him. The next conversation. Showing someone the red card. It comes from football. You probably know that. A player gets the red card, if he has fouled another player badly or if he has behaved unfairly. He is not allowed to continue playing. And as a conversation, showing someone the red card means that we think the behavior of another person is bad and that we tell or show them that they should not continue like that. If we show someone the red card, then we say, stop, stop it. We say, for example, Markus behaved impossibly at the party. Fortunately, Anna showed him the red card. That means, Anna clearly showed or told Markus that he has to stop his behavior. Maybe Markus had to leave the party. Two more examples are politics has to show extremists the red card. Or people who do not wear a mask on the train get the red card. Another conversation with red is seeing something through the pink glasses. It is sometimes said, seeing everything pink or having the pink glasses on. That means all the same. We use this conversation if someone is very optimistic and above all naive. If someone sees everything as he or she wishes and sees nothing bad. So you are not realistic. For example, if you are newly in love, you see everything through the pink glasses. That means you don't see anything negative about the person you are in love with. Or it's time for you to take off the pink glasses and realize that Markus is a bad person. Or before I moved, I saw Berlin through the pink glasses. Now I live here for three months and realize that I don't like life in the big city that much. A positive conversation with red is That means you make a lot of effort when a guest comes to visit. This conversation is reminiscent of the Oscar Awards where the stars walk over the red carpet or state visits. When the president of another country comes to visit, he or she will be received on a red carpet. An example sentence is She rolled out the red carpet for her in-laws. That means, for example, she cleaned the whole apartment, made the apartment beautiful and made a lot of effort as a hostess. Or My aunt was really disappointed because I didn't roll out the red carpet for her. She was disappointed because I didn't receive her with the greatest joy and didn't prepare something nice for her. And then there is the proverbial red thread. It is neither negative nor positive. The red thread is simply something that is typical for something. For example, in the sentence Happiness is like a red thread through his life. That means that he was always lucky in his life. But the red thread is also, for example, in a book or a film, a connecting element, a guiding motif. For example, in the sentences I didn't like his new book. I missed the red thread. Or The important thing about a good article is the red thread. Or I had a hard time following my colleague's presentation. Somehow I missed the red thread. In these sentences, the red thread is a topic that holds the book, the article or the presentation together and that means that you can follow it well. Take a look at my playlist if you want to learn more about German idioms. In the next video of this series I will introduce you to idioms and important expressions in German with names. So if you want to know what Menschmeier, Hinz and Kunz, Hansdampf or Schlaumeier mean, then feel free to check it out soon and subscribe to my channel. Thank you and see you soon!