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Discover LudwigThe phrase "am green" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that someone is inexperienced or new to a particular situation or field.
Example: "As a recent graduate, I must admit that I am green when it comes to navigating the corporate world."
Alternatives: "I am inexperienced" or "I am a novice."
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am green
noun
The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
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I am green, I abound.
I am green with envy of your kind of assurance.
"I am green to this whole situation," she said, "and never considered the fact you can apply to an apartment and not get it.
Bishop had a distaste for the "suffering business" of confessional poetry, but she loved "Life Studies," and thinking about why she loved it helped her define her own, very different method: I am green with envy of your kind of assurance.
That's why I am green.
Thus, I am green with envy.
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Fast forward six years and I am green-fingered in a totally different way.
Cytoplasm of living cells was stained with calcein-AM (green fluorescence), and DNA of dead cells was stained with propidium iodide (red fluorescence) (scale bar = 200 μm).
Cells were assessed for viability using the Live/Dead cytotoxicity assay (Invitrogen) in which live cells could incorporate calcein-AM (green), whereas dead cells were labeled by ethidium homodimer (red).
a NRVMs were stained with calcein-AM (green)/ethidium homodimer (red) on days 1 and 3 (bars = 100 um).
Briefly, the cells were fluorescently labeled with calcein-AM (green) and ethidium homodimer-1 (red) to visualize the live and dead cells, respectively, using a fluorescence microscope (Observer D1, Zeiss).
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