When you're coloured up, that means that your face is beginning to blush and you have "color". Usually, people begin to blush when something embarrassing has happened, or when everyone is paying attention to you, and you're a bit bashful. The saying is a term that is pretty old, and is used many times in England, since it is spelled the "European" way. It started to be very common during the middle 1800's, when Fredrick Marryat's novel, "Japhet in Search of a Father" was published using that phrase. Ever since then, people began to use it in common conversations, like how we often repeat catchphrases of a film or show that we like.
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