Could you please tell me what it means if someone calls you “green eyes”, but you don't actually have green eyes.
We're trying to figure out if it means envy/jealousy, being temperamental, or something else?
Green eyes
January 27th, 2009 by Eunice Ng
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I've heard "green with envy", but not "green eyes" for that purpose.
Jealousy is the "green-eyed monster," so if someone calls you "green eyes," they probably mean you've behaved in a jealous manner.
did they say "do you see any green in my eyes"?
This means I am not that naive as you think.
green-eyed = jealous, envious
Green is a colour associated with sickness, possibly because people's skin takes on a slightly yellow/green tinge when they are seriously ill. Green is also the colour of many unripe foods that cause stomach pains.
The phrase was used by, and possibly coined by, Shakespeare to denote jealousy, in The Merchant of Venice, 1600:
Portia:
"How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,
Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.
I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
For fear I surfeit."