go/turn beetroot (red)
UK also go as red as a beetroot, US go beet red, go as red as a beetto have a red face because you are embarrassed:
Whenever I talked about his past life, he would go beetroot.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Expressing and showing feelings
- abandon
- affective
- be in/get into a state idiom
- beat your breast/chest idiom
- beetroot
- bubble
- expression
- flame
- impassioned
- lose it idiom
- marvel
- moved
- overflow
- pine
- throw
- vocalize
- wear your heart on your sleeve idiom
- whimper
- wring
- wring your hands idiom
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