In English you have
- red tape (bureaucracy)
- the green light (the go-ahead)
- a blueprint (a plan)
You are also
- white as a sheet
- brown as a berry (I don’t know what kind of berry!)
- blue from the cold
- green with envy
- yellow if you are a coward
- green thumb (means you are good at growing plants)
- down in black and white
- blacklisted
- in the red (in debt)
- in the black (in profit)
- seeing red (angry)
