blow someone's back out
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blow someone's brains out
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow someone's cover
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow someone's mind
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow the cobwebs away
to get rid of stale ideas or habits
blow the lid off
To expose a scandal or secret publicly
blow the whistle
Report wrongdoing or injustice to authorities
blow this pop stand
to leave a place quickly
blow this Popsicle stand
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow this taco stand
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow to kingdom come
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow tomahawks
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blow town
to leave a place quickly and secretly
blow up
To make a noise, or scold; formerly a cant expression used among thieves, now a recognised and respectable phrase. BLOWING UP, a jobation, a scolding.
blow up in one's face
To have a plan or situation fail or backfire completely
blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
blowen
A mistress or whore of a gentleman of the scamp. The blowen kidded the swell into a snoozing ken, and shook him of his dummee and thimble; the girl inveigled the gentleman into a brothel and robbed him of his pocket book and watch.
blowen
Originally a showy or flaunting female, now a prostitute only. In Wilts, a BLOWEN is a blossom. Germ. BLÜHEN, to bloom. In German, also, BUHLEN is to court, and BUHLE, a sweetheart.
blower
A pipe. How the swell funks his blower and lushes red tape; what a smoke the gentleman makes with his pipe, and drinks brandy.
blower
A girl; a contemptuous name in opposition to JOMER.—Gipsy.
blowie
A blow job.
blown herrings
Herrings bloated, swollen, or cured by smoking; another name for bloaters.
blown upon
Made the subject of a scandal. His reputation has been blown upon, means that he has been the subject of talk wherein something derogatory was hinted at or asserted. Blown upon by the breath of slander.
blowsey
A word applied to a rough wench, or coarse woman.
blubber
The mouth.--I have stopped the cull's blubber; I have stopped the fellow's mouth, meant either by gagging or murdering him.
blubber cheeks
Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the fat or blubber of a whale.
bludger
A low thief, who does not hesitate to use violence, literally one who will use a bludgeon.
blue
Said of talk that is smutty or indecent. Probably from the French, "Bibliothèque Bleu." When the conversation has assumed an entirely opposite character, it is then said to be BROWN or Quakerish.
blue about the gills
Down in the mouth; depressed looking. Rosy, or red about the gills. Flushed with liquor.
blue beans
Bullets or shot; hence, "Three blue beans in a blue bladder," a rattle for children.
blue bellies
A term applied by the Confederate soldiers during the civil war in America to the Federals, the name being suggested by the skyblue gaberdines worn by the Northern soldiers. On the other hand, the "filthy BLUE BELLIES," as the full title ran, dubbed the Confederates "Greybacks," the epithet cutting both ways, as the Southern soldiers not only wore grey uniforms, but "greyback" is American as well as English for a louse.
blue billy
A blue neckcloth with white spots. See BILLY.
Blue Bird of Happiness
This is an idea elaborated from Maeterlinck's play of that name, first produced in London in 1910.
blue blood
High or noble birth or descent; it is a Spanish phrase, and refers to the fact that the veins shown in the skin of the pure- blooded Spanish aristocrat, whose race had suffered no Moorish or other admixture, were more blue than those of persons of mixed, and therefore inferior, ancestry.
Blue Boar
A public-house sign; the cognisance of Richard III. In Leicester is a lane in the parish of St. Nicholas, called the Blue Boar Lane, because Richard slept there the night before the battle of Bosworth Field. The bristly boar, in infant gore, Wallows beneath the thorny shade.
Blue Books
In England, parliamentary reports and official publications presented by the Crown to both Houses of Parliament. Each volume is in, folio, and is covered with a blue wrapper.
blue bottle
A policeman. This well-known slang term for a London constable is used by Shakspeare. In Part ii. of King Henry IV., act v. scene 4, Doll Tearsheet calls the beadle, who is dragging her in, a "thin man in a censer, a BLUE-BOTTLE rogue." This may at first seem singular, but the reason is obvious. The beadles of Bridewell whose duty it was to whip the women prisoners were clad in blue.
blue bottle
A constable, a policeman; also, formerly, an almsman, or anyone whose distinctive dress was blue.
blue butter
Mercurial ointment used for the destruction of parasites.
blue chamber
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blue devils
Feelings of anxiety or depression
blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the blue aprons worn by publicans. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE.
Blue Guards
So the Oxford Blues, now called the Royal Horse Guards, were called during the campaign in Flanders (1742-5).
Blue Hen's Chickens
The nickname for inhabitants of the State of Delaware. It is said that in the Revolutionary War a certain Captain Caldwell commanded, and brought to a high state of efficiency, a Delaware regiment. He used to say that no cock could be truly game whose mother was not a blue hen. Hence the Delaware regiment became known as "Blue Hen's Chickens,'* and the name was transferred to the inhabitants of the State generally.
Blue John
A blue fluor-spar, found in the Blue John mine near Castleton, Derbyshire; so called to distinguish it from the Black Jack, an ore of zinc. Called John from John Kirk, a miner, who first noticed it.
blue laws
This is a phrase used in U.S.A. to describe laws which interfere with personal freedom, tastes and habits, such as sumptuary laws and those regulating private morals. The name was .first given to several laws of this kind said to have been imposed in the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven in the early 18th century.
Blue Monday
The Monday before Lent, spent in dissipation. It is said that dissipation gives everything a blue tinge. Hence "blue" means tipsy.
blue moon
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
blue moon
Once in a blue moon. Very rarely indeed.
blue murder
To shout blue murder. Indicative more of terror or alarm than* of real danger. It appears to be a play on the French exclamation morbleu; there may also be an allusion to the common phrase "blue ruin.
blue murders
Probably from desperate or alarming cries. A term used more to describe cries of terror or alarm than for any other purpose. As, "I heard her calling BLUE MURDERS."—MORBLEU.
blue note
a feeling of sadness or melancholy
blue pigeons
Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses or churches.
blue pipe
A vein.
blue plumb
A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumbs; a volley of ball, shot from soldiers' firelocks.
blue ribbon
First place or best in a competition
Blue Shirts
A force of Irish Volunteers taken to Spain by General O'Duffy to help General Franco in the civil war, 1936-9.
blue skin
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross of the black breed, or, as it is termed, a lick of the tar brush.
Blue Squadron
One of the three divisions of the British Fleet in the 17th century. See ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE.
blue state
A state that consistently votes Democratic in elections
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