Meanings
nounpillar-box red (plural pillar-box reds)
plural pillar-box reds
- A bright red colour, like that of a British post box.
adjectivepillar-box red (not comparable)
- not comparableOf 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
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