They call him a jerk and an idiot and other more colorful terms.

"I would not put it in such colorful terms, Captain, but that is essentially the idea."

All the more reason, then, to focus on this idiom as seen in colorful terms before it drops below the horizon.

Politicians are competing to denounce Italy in the most colorful terms.

Or she'll say that an ad stinks, but in more colorful terms.

Paris had used colorful terms, but he was essentially correct.

The warriors who actually took part in the battle would remember it in much more colorful terms.

The piece works on its own colorful terms as a glorious processional.

"Women have colorful terms for certain things, just like men."

I suggested something like that, though in less colorful terms.