Colorful Idioms

golden age

brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)

billowing smoke (idiom)/foul atmosphere/(fig.) murky atmosphere/in a turmoil

ferocious-looking (idiom)

beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)

old and gray-haired

gaudy/flashy (but without substance)

to have bright eyes and white teeth

lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom)/fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection

(of a woman) old and faded

young people decked out in gorgeous clothes (idiom)

(written) in black and white

evergreen pine and cypress (idiom); steadfast nobility

lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom)/fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world

the rights and wrongs of a matter (idiom)

all the colors in profusion (idiom); a garish display

red flowers and green willow/all the colors of spring

lit. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom)/fig. beautiful flowers