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  • expressions - Why does swearing turn the air blue? - English Language . . .
    The air was blue with smoke, and quivered with the shrill cries of the willets, the scared whistle of the plover, the squeaking call of sandpipers, and, over all, the thunder of the guns
  • Why is a very rare steak called blue? - English Language Usage . . .
    The "black and blue" definition still doesn't quite define it - it's a cooking style that relies on the term "blue" to already exist ("black on the outside, blue on the inside") This, plus the fact that the French term is bleu as well, makes me feel this isn't the right etymological alley
  • etymology - Origin of the of the phrase feeling blue - English . . .
    If you are sad and describe yourself as "feeling blue," you are using a phrase coined from a custom among many old deepwater sailing ships If the ship lost the captain or any of the officers during its voyage, she would fly blue flags and have a blue band painted along her entire hull when returning to home port Also, see Origins of Navy Terminology for other expressions
  • Why does blue blazes specify the color blue, and what is the origin . . .
    The Wikipedia article on sulfur confirms the flame color: Sulfur burns with a blue flame with formation of sulfur dioxide, which has a suffocating and irritating odor But is that the original rationale for "blue blazes"? Also, when and where did the earliest recorded instances of "blue blazes" and "blue blazes of hell" occur?
  • What does going blue mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    This is in reference to a 'blue movie', a euphemistic term for a pornographic film It has since been toned down somewhat and phrases like a bit of blue can be used to say that something is 'adult' in nature Often this includes dealing with sexual material but doesn't necessarily mean visually pornographic; a comedian who tells jokes with a sexual theme could be called 'a bit blue' going a
  • Origin of blue for rude? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The phrase “working blue” came into usage at the time If a representative of the Keith Orpheum circuit objected to the content of an act, a request to cut the material was sent backstage in a blue envelope So-called blue material was considered problematic enough that vaudeville listings in local papers noted which shows were “Clean
  • Meaning of ‘livid’ - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    3 If you scroll down the M-W page with the definition of livid that you provide, you will find this usage note that explains quite well the issue: Livid has a colorful history The Latin adjective lividus means "dull, grayish, or leaden blue " From this came the French livide, which English borrowed as livid
  • Why do we say that an obscene joke is off-color?
    Here is the definition of off color in Chapman Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition (1995): off color adj phr by 1875 Somewhat salacious; risqué; =BLUE: a couple of off-color jokes Some of his observations were a bit off color That same reference reports that blue in the sense of "lewd, rude, suggestive" appeared in American English by 1840 The same sense of blue appears
  • Is blunt the right expression for directness?
    Blue Clouds is pointing out that traditionally, sharp things have been considered more painful than blunt (not-sharp) things This is absolutely true Nowadays it's very fashionable to raise that blunted sharp things are more painful dangerous, specifically because this is counter-intuitive
  • syntactic analysis - Why is dark an adverb in dark blue? - English . . .
    Regarding blue, the OED says: Often with modifying word indicating intensity (as bright blue, dark blue, light blue, etc ), drawing a comparison with an object or another colour (as indigo blue, lavender blue, powder blue, etc ), or making a (sometimes arbitrary) association with a person or thing (as French blue, royal blue, navy blue), etc





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