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[Tony 1963]

Hello,

I'm reading the following sentences:

1. "we were inside a monstrous re-entry fireball glowing with greens and candy pinks."
Would you please tell me what color is candy pink?

2. "The two weeks were a blur of tests."
What does it mean by "a blur of "?

Thanks.

[LucentShade]

candy pink = very bright shade of pink; do an image search on google for pink cotton candy or pink bublegum -- that should give you an idea.

blur, as a word means "indistinctness"/"cloudy or hazy area (especially on a picture) where details cannot be seen"

To say that [time interval] was a blur of [something] means that the time was so full of that thing (tests in this case) that it felt like nothing else happened -- another way to say the same thing is : There were so many tests during those two weeks that I don't remember doing anything else.

Also, "The weekend passed by in a blur of parties" = "I spent (almost all of) the weekend at parties."

[Tony 1963]

Thanks a lot.