Red
applied to gold. Hence a gold watch is a “red kettle.”
“Thou shewʹst an honest nature; weepʹst for thy master;
There’s a red rogue to buy the handkerchief.”
· 
· 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.