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blue
1. adjective Sad or depressed. I'm sorry, I'm just feeling a bit blue after getting back my exam results. Most people love the holidays, but they always make me blue. My kids are always blue on the last night of summer vacation.
2. adjective Obscene, vulgar, or risqué; dirty. My grandmother is the sweetest old lady you'll ever meet, but she sure loves telling blue jokes! I remember the video store down the street had a section of blue movies for adults that they would keep behind a black curtain. I know that a lot of people enjoy blue humor, but I find it to be crass.
3. adjective Of meat, especially steak, completely uncooked in the center; extra rare. A: "And how would you like your filet mignon, sir?" B: "Blue, please." He ordered his meat "blue," and I nearly threw up right there. I have no idea how people eat steak that's rare, or, worse yet, blue—I'm a well-done sort of guy.
4. adjective Of or referring to a political party whose representative color is blue. Analysts are predicting a blue wave in the congressional elections this year. It looks as though the seats of Westminster will be mostly blue after the Tories' dominance in the recent general election. My grandfather was a staunch conservative, so I can't imagine that he ever voted blue in any election.
5. noun, slang A police officer. Primarily heard in US. I never thought Jack would be a blue when he grew up, after all the trouble he used to get into as a kid. A: "What's that blue doing here?" B: "He's always walking around here—this is his beat." Ugh! Some blue gave me a ticket for parking here overnight.
6. noun, slang A 10 mg tablet of diazepam (more commonly known as Valium), which is blue in color. Usually used plurally. Primarily heard in US. I had to take a blue to calm me down before the big presentation. Apparently, he died of an overdose of blues. A: "If you're that nervous, why don't you take some of my blues?" B: "Nah, those things put me to sleep."
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*blues
1. sadness; a mood of depression. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) You'll have to excuse Bill. He's getting the blues thinking about Jane. I get the blues every time I hear that song.
2. a traditional style of popular music characterized by lyrics expressing hardship, lost love, etc. Buddy had been singing the blues ever since the Depression.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
blue
1. mod. depressed; melancholy. That music always makes me blue.
2. mod. obscene; vulgar; dirty. Those blue jokes don’t go over very well around here.
3. n. the sky; the heavens. The idea came to me right out of the blue.
4. mod. alcohol intoxicated. You might say I’m blue. Others might note that I am stoned.
5. n. an amphetamine tablet or capsule, especially a blue one. (Drugs.) How are blues different from reds and yellows?
6. n. a police officer; the police. The blues will be here in a minute.
7. n. a 10-mg tablet of Valium. (Drugs.) In treatment they kept giving me blues to calm me down. Now I can’t live without them.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (as) clear as the sky is blue
- (one's) lips turn blue
- a blue funk
- a blue-eyed boy
- a bolt from the blue
- a bolt out of the blue
- a shot out of the blue
- be blue in the face
- be in a (blue) funk
- between a rock and a hard place
- between Scylla and Charybdis
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- Big Blue
- black and blue
- black-and-blue
- bleed red, white, and blue
- blue
- blue and white
- blue around the gills
- blue balls
- blue blood
- blue book
- blue boys
- blue chamber
- blue chip
- blue coats
- blue code of silence
- blue collar
- blue devils
- blue falcon
- blue film
- blue flu
- blue funk
- blue funk, in a
- blue funk, to be in a
- blue gown
- blue hair
- blue in the face
- blue in the face, to be/until one is
- Blue Lives Matter
- blue Monday
- blue moon
- blue movie
- blue note
- blue on blue
- blue pill
- blue plate special
- blue ribbon
- blue screen of death
- blue state
- blue streak
- blue suit
- blue suits
- blue wall of silence
- blue wave
- blue-collar staff
- blue-collar worker
- blued, screwed, and tattooed
- blue-eyed
- blue-eyed boy
- blue-eyed girl
- blue-light special
- blues and twos
- blue-sky research
- blue-sky thinking
- bluestocking
- bolt from the blue
- bolt from the blue, a
- boys and girls in blue
- boys in blue
- burn with a low blue flame
- caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
- clear blue water
- come out of a blue sky
- come out of a clear blue sky
- come out of a/the clear blue sky
- come out of the blue
- cry blue murder
- curse a blue streak
- cuss a blue streak
- damn it to blue blazes
- Damn it to blue blazes!
- devil and deep blue sea
- dip into the blue
- do something until you are blue in the face
- feel blue
- girls in blue
- go blue
- have a blue fit
- have a pink fit
- have a pink/blue fit
- have the blues
- hoist the blue peter
- in a blue funk
- in blue blazes
- into the blue
- into the great blue yonder
- into the wide blue yonder
- into the wild blue yonder
- into thin air
- light the (blue) touch paper
- light the blue touch paper
- like a blue-arsed fly
- like a bolt from the blue
- like a bolt out of the blue
- like blue blazes
- like greased lightning
- little boy blue
- look through blue glasses
- men (and women) in blue
- men in blue
- once in a blue moon
- out of a blue sky
- out of a clear (blue) sky
- out of a clear blue sky
- out of a/the clear (blue) sky
- out of the blue
- pale around the gills
- run around like a blue-arsed fly
- rush around like a blue-arsed fly
- scream bloody murder
- scream bloody/blue murder, to
- scream blue murder
- screwed, blued, and tattooed
- something old, something new, something borrowed, (and) something blue
- swear a blue streak
- talk a blue streak
- talk someone's arm off
- talk till (one) is blue in the face
- talk till (one's) face is blue
- talk until (one) is blue in the face
- talk until (one's) face is blue
- talk until one is blue in the face
- the boys in blue
- the wide blue yonder
- till (one) is blue in the face
- till you're blue in the face
- true blue
- turn the air blue
- until (one) is blue in the face
- until you are blue in the face
- what the (blue) blazes
- wide blue yonder
- wild blue yonder
- women in blue
- your blue-eyed boy
- your, somebody's, etc. blue-eyed boy