What Does It Mean to 'Get the Greenlight'? — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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In many parts of the world, the flow of traffic is controlled in part by traffic lights. Typically, they have three colors: green, yellow, and red.
Green means go. Yellow means proceed with care and be prepared to stop. And red means stop.
But these colored lights are not only used to control traffic. When it comes to red and green, we also use those two in our English expressions.
Green light
The most common is the green light.
“Greenlight” means to have permission to go ahead with a project.
In English, we often turn verbs into nouns and nouns into verbs.
For example, sometimes we use “go-ahead” as a noun. If you have been given a…
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