Colour me sheepish

[jiho]

Hi all,
I was wondering about the meaning of this expression: "Colour me sheepish."
Is it what you say when you admit that you have done something embarrassing? Kind of "Yes, you can laugh at me, I have…"? or "You can make me blush"?

Thanks!

 

[sb70012]

Hi all,
I was wondering about the meaning of this expression: "Colour me sheepish."

Hello Jihio,
Where did you find the expression? Do you have some more context for it?
Any source?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Hi all,
I was wondering about the meaning of this expression: "Colour me sheepish."
Is it what you say when you admit that you have done something embarrassing? Kind of "Yes, you can laugh at me, I have…"? or "You can make me blush"?

Thanks!

Sheepish means "embarrassed", especially about a mistake or a fault. The phrase "color me" means "consider me" or "regard me as".

 

[Barb_D]

I think it's more natural to use "sheepish" to describe an expression, or "sheepishly" to describe a manner of doing something.

"They were on top of my head all along," she said sheepishly.
His sheepish expression spoke to his guilt more than his words.

I would say "Oops. Color me embarrassed!" instead of "sheepish."

 

[jiho]

Honestly, I don't have much of a full context. I read it somewhere long ago.
Before posting the question, I did a quick search on the net and found several entries that contained it. But I wasn't able to make much sense of it from the context of those entries. You can try it yourselves:

"colour me sheepish" - Buscar con Google

Perhaps it is some regional way of saying "colour me embarrassed"…
Thank you all so much for your inputs!