"I would not have used such a colorful expression; but you are essentially correct, sir."

"I'm afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such," Frank offered, with a nervous smile.

The popular piety of the people of Ayaviri takes form in a number of colorful religious expressions.

Since so many colorful expressions depend on these vanished relationships, uncertainty rules the roast.

(Why doesn't Al enliven his speeches with such colorful expressions?)

Ms. Matlin said one colorful expression she signed in the pilot was edited because her fingers got too explicit.

The Asian lender used a colorful expression to explain his loan: not just to gain influence and access, but "to put powder on my face."

They become living works of art by setting up a dialogue between themselves and the spectators who receive enjoyment from their colorful expression.

In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.

Is there another lexical channel for the colorful expression of derision that does not light the fuse for a fight?