green with envy

green with envy

Meaning |Synonyms

• extremely jealous of another person
• to be unhappy about something
• upset because someone else has something that you do not have
• being envious
• wishing to have someone's possession

ExampleSentences

1. Sally was green with envy when he saw my brand new car.
2. Why are you getting green with envy?
3. All the participants were green with envy when John wasdelivering his speech.
4. I was green with envy when I came to know that my enemy got into arelationship with my recent crush.
5. I could see that all the girls were green with envy when I came out in mynew dress.
6. When I told Emma about theconfirmation letter – she was green withenvy.
7. My engagement ring made my friends green with envy.

Origin

Long ago, the Greek associated a green complexion with sickness, fear, jealousy, and overproduction of bile in stomach, which gives us a clear image of the origination of the idiom “green with envy.”

It isbelieved that William Shakespeare made this association popular in Othello as:

“Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on …”