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Thread #135442 Message #3089407
Posted By: GUEST, topsie
05-Feb-11 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Philology
Subject: RE: BS: Philology
My Oxford dictionary (1993 edition) cites as an example of the use of 'amber' as an adjective:
A. WILSON I regard this as the amber warning.
But it doesn't say where the quotation comes from or give a date.
It also includes 'yellow alert' – 'the preliminary stage of an alert, when danger is thought to be near but not actually imminent; a warning of such a situation.'