pillar-box red
adj1
Of a bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
- ‘All right. And if there were no “ladies” in the vicinity?’ ¶ ‘Well, you can always,’ and here Archie went a pillar-box red, this being his own version of cementing a friendship, ‘slap the salami, as the GIs say!’2000, Zadie Smith, “The Root Canals of Alfred Archibald Jones and Samad Miah Iqbal” (chapter 5), in White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 88:
- Related terms
- pillar box