Color Me...
It was being used as long ago as
1969.
From the song Calgary written by Ian and Sylvia of Great Speckled Bird;
Color
that jet plane going,
Color me gone.
Presumably it comes from the instructions
in a children's colouring book and means to give an appropriate colour or description
to something or someone.
It may have a literal association with "to show one's
true colours."
Replies
- True Colours Lewis 03/10/03