There's nothing mellow about yellow

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#230384 Tue, 30 May 06 09:33 AM

What's this sentence meaning there's nothing mellow about yellow?

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#230389 Tue, 30 May 06 09:43 AM

There is nothing sweet or rich in yollow colour or perhaps it means 'all that glitter is not gold' or may be 'old age is not very much enjoyable"

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Vorpar

#230406 Tue, 30 May 06 10:16 AM

Mellow means calm. Beyond that, I'm not sure what the idiom could mean. There's a song by Donovan called "Mellow Yellow."

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Marius Hancu

#230428 Tue, 30 May 06 11:02 AM

There are only 22 hits at Yahoo on
"mellow about yellow"
(quotation marks are important),
such as this one:

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http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/07/07/sections/sports/pro/article_587744.php

He's mellow about yellow

Armstrong tries to honor the fallen former bearer by not wearing the leader's jersey.
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It means, IMO, to be soft (at heart) about something having the yellow color, as in this case the yellow jersey worn by the leader in bike races.