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seeing yellow

seeing yellow is the present participle and gerund of see yellow.

Meaning of see yellow

Verb

see yellow (third-person singular simple present sees yellow, present participle seeing yellow, simple past saw yellow, past participle seen yellow)

  1. (idiomatic) To receive a yellow card.
    • Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red.
      Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record

Questions about seeing yellow

What is seeing yellow the present participle and gerund of?
Seeing yellow is the present participle and gerund of see yellow.

Words near seeing yellow in the dictionary

  1. seeing to
  2. seeing to it
  3. seeing what sticks
  4. seeing which way the cat jumps
  5. seeing with half an eye
  6. seeing yellow
  7. seeing's
  8. seeing-eye
  9. seeing-eye dog
  10. seeing-eye dogs
  11. seeing-to

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