הוֹרִיקוּ פָּנָיו (פְּנִים מוֹרִיקוֹת)

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To turn green/ to grow pale

הגדרה (אנגלית)

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)