green light

Everyone has a green light, and our goal every game is to get 100 points.

NBC stumbled onto a monster of a television show when it gave the green light to Friends in 1994.

In addition to the green light for the rape, the village council also ordered the woman to marry one of her attackers.

No one—not the United States and definitely not the United Nations—is going to give Israel that kind of open-ended green light.

By allowing the Alessandra Bernarolis to stay married, it essentially has given the green light to civil unions.

A mile and more away, in a great shaft of green light from which all other craft kept clear, a tremendous shape was dropping.

"No al fresco dining tonight," said John, as the darkening sky was veined by a sudden spray of blue-green light.

"The Bassetts' dock is the green light; the red, white, and blue is Mrs. Owen's," explained the captain.

She would doubtless see more of her now: the green light and the red, white and blue were very close together.

For there, high up, was the green light of a distant rocket.