Vert : adj. « Vert " is a color.
« Vert »Also qualifies something that is not Wall (seeds, cereals, fruits).
Green with jealousy, with rage.
I was green: I was furious.
To see, to say green and unripe ones: to see, to say astonishing, shocking things: To see all the colors (see the origin of the expression below).
The green language: slang.
Go green: go relax, to remake oneself the countryside (see the origin of the expression below).
resume definitely someone.
– Quote from Ray Kroc (1902-1984), founder of the Mac Donald chain: “As long as you are green, you grow, as soon as you are ripe you start to rot”.
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– The expression “to see things green and not ripe”: shocking, crude, incongruous things,… – Troubles, difficulties.
It was at the beginning of the XNUMXth century that we began to say yawning beautiful ones, green ones and blackberries, meaning “to tell licentious stories”. Because shiso here takes on the slang sense that we still know today to describe daring remarks. As for Wall, it is since the twelfth century that it is equivalent to "adult" as found in middle age. However, daring words should only be spoken and heard by adults.
It is only later that this initial expression and at the green were attached to not ripe to create what appears to be a repetition. Preceded by to hear or to tell, it is the first meaning proposed for the expression which is to be considered.
Then, by extension, from shocking or incongruous things, one moved on to troubles or difficulties and the expression is then usually preceded by see ou suffer.
– The expression “going green”: going to rest, recovering in the countryside – Getting away from a stressful, dangerous, unpleasant situation or place.
This expression comes from the XNUMXth century, but already from the XNUMXth century shiso designates the meadows, the countryside, the nature which for the city dwellers, but certainly not for the peasants of the time) were a place where it was good to rest, to get away from the worries of everyday life. By extension, green has also designated a distant or discreet place allowing one to get away, for whatever reason, from an unpleasant or dangerous situation. Thus, in the middle of mobsters, going green can also mean moving away from potential problems in order to be forgotten at least for a while.