The film opens with him being refused backstage access at a hip-hop performance, plainly because his skin is of the wrong shade.

He characterized this as "what we sometimes consider to be the wrong shade," with a note of fatalism.

It was the wrong shade of red, for one thing.

Two of the six strands of yarn, which she had threaded through her needle, were the right color but the wrong shade.

The sky was the wrong shade of blue.

Others consider mistakes - buying the wrong shade of lipstick or eyeshadow, for instance - to be a minor problem.

His eyes were the wrong shade of blue and the lids drooped too much at the outer corners.

Remember, I told you that his eyes were the wrong shade of blue.

He's quite deaf for a start; he never hears what colour paint the customers want and often they walk out with the wrong shade.

It's a green country all right, but just ever so slightly the wrong shade of green, which makes all the difference.