To turn green/ to grow pale
Figuratively: to become ashamed. To be embarrassed and humiliated (literally: his face became green).
("A certain act of Zadok, when a crowd of people came to the high priest in the market, and a piece of cloth fell from his mouth and fell on the high priest on his clothes, and they set the high priest's face down" - Nida 33b, and also: "He did not come... they set his face down and he sat down and waited for her" - Agnon/ Tamol Shilshom, 115, and also: "When he came on a winter night in the year 48, her brother knocked on The poor of our house, his face is dark, his eyes are rolling in their sockets, and his mouth is hard" - Life in the Light/ Feathers, 54)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
הוֹרִיקוּ פָּנָיו (פְּנִים מוֹרִיקוֹת)
Definition (Hebrew)
בְּהַשְׁאָלָה: הִתְבַּיֵּשׁ. בּוּשׁ וְנִכְלָם (מִלּוּלִית: נַעֲשׂוּ פָּנָיו יְרֻקּוֹת).
("מַעֲשֶׂה בְּצָדוֹקִי אֶחָד שֶׁסֵּפֶר עַם כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל בַּשּׁוּק וְנָתְזָה צְנוֹרָא מִפִּיו וְנָפְלָה לְכַהֵן גָּדוֹל עַל בְּגָדָיו, וְהוֹרִיקוּ פָּנָיו שֶׁל כֹּהֵן גָּדוֹל"- נִדָּה לג ע"ב, וְכֵן:"הִיא לֹא בָּאָה...הוֹרִיקוּ פָּנָיו וְהָיָה יוֹשֵׁב וּמַמְתִּין לָהּ"- עַגְנוֹן/ תְּמוֹל שִׁלְשׁוֹם, 115, כֵּן:"בְּאוֹתוֹ לֵיל חֹרֶף שֶׁל שְׁנַת 48 הִקִּישׁ אָחִיהָ עַל דֶּלֶת בֵּיתֵנוּ, פָּנָיו מוֹרִיקוֹת עֵינָיו מִתְהַפְּכוֹת בְּחֹרֵיהֶן וּבְפִיו בַּקָּשָׁה"- חַיִּים בְּאֵר/ נוֹצוֹת, 54)