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green

and green folding and green paper and green stuff

n. money; paper money. (see also long bread.) I have so much green stuff, I don’t know what to do with it. What is need is more green! Not promises!

green

around/about the gills

Pale or sickly in appearance.

See:

• a hedge between keeps friendship green
• a little green
• be (as) green as a gooseberry
• be green about the gills
• be green with envy
• blue around the gills
• flourish like a green bay tree
• get the green light
• give (someone) the green light
• give the green light
• go green on someone
• God's green earth
• green
• green about the gills
• green apple quickstep
• green around the gills
• green as a gooseberry
• green as grass
• green fingers
• green folding
• green folding stuff/money
• green indigo
• green light
• green light, the
• green paper
• Green Stamps
• green state
• green stuff
• green thumb
• green with envy
• green-eyed monster
• greenhorn
• have a green thumb
• have green fingers
• long bread
• long green
• sure as God made little green apples
• the green-eyed monster
• the rub of the green
• Where on God’s green earth?
• wigs on the green