Blue
blue
black and blue
Blue and the Gray (Blue: Union; Gray: Confederate)
navy blue
Blue Baby Syndrome (Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig)
Blue Baby or Baby with Heart Disease
out of the blue; into the blue
blue in the face (i.e. extremely exasperated)
Big Blue (i.e. IBM)
Oval Blue (i.e. Ford Motor)
Blue Angels (US Navy flyers or jets)
Blue Ball, Pennsylvania (in Lancaster County)
blue balls (i.e. vasocongestion)
Blue Book (as in Kelley Blue Book, for used cars)
blue book (school examination book)
Blue Book (cf. White Book, Green Book, Red Book,
Purple Book)
cordon bleu (blue)
bluebeard
bluebell
blueberry
bluebird
blue blood
bluebonnet
blue cheese
blue chip [finan.]
blue chips (cf. white chips)
blue-collar worker (cf. white collar)
blue crab
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
a blue day
Blue Devils (Duke University basketball team)
blue diamond
Blue Diamond, Nevada
Blue Diamond of the Crown (Hope Diamond)
blue dog
blue fish
blue flu
blue gill (a common sunfish)
bluegrass (Kentucky bluegrass; Bluegrass State)
(also country music)
blue heron (great blue heron)
Blue Jackets (NHL ice hockey team; Columbus, Ohio)
bluejacket
Blue Jays (MLB baseball team; Toronto, Canada)
blue jeans
Blue Knights
The BLUE KNIGHTS is a non-profit fraternal organization consisting of active and retired law enforcement men & women who enjoy riding motorcycles
blue joke
blue laws
(a name first used in the eighteenth century to
describe certain supposititious laws of extreme
rigor reported to have been enacted in New
Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] )
blue lips
Blue Monday
blue movie
bluenose
blue pencil
blue ribbon; blue-ribbon panel; blue-ribbon jury
Blue Shield/Blue Cross
blue squirrel
blue states (cf. red states)
blue suede shoe (Elvis Presley)
bluetooth
blue violet
out of the blue
a true-blue hero
to make so blue -
once in a blue moon
true-blue [coll.]
a bolt from the blue
to have a blue fit
to be blue-blooded
to look blue [fig.]
feeling blue
to be in a blue funk
blueprint; blue print
blue plate luncheon (blue plate special)
blue light special
bluetooth (pink Cadillac with a bluetooth)
singing the blues; get the blues
a blue song (or blues)
once in a blue moon
bluestocking \BLOO-stock-ing\
(noun) : a woman having intellectual or literary interests
Example sentence:
Times have changed since English critic William
Hazlitt wrote in 1822, "I have an utter aversion to
bluestockings. I do not care a fig for any woman
that knows even what 'an author' means."
Did you know?
In mid-18th century England a group of ladies
decided to replace evenings of card playing and
idle chatter with "conversation parties," inviting
illustrious men of letters to discuss literary
and intellectual topics with them. One regular
guest was scholar-botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet.
His hostesses willingly overlooked his cheap blue
worsted stockings (a type disdained by the elite) in
order to have the benefit of his lively conversation.
Those who considered it inappropriate for women to
aspire to learning derisively called the group the
"Blue Stocking Society." The women who were
the original bluestockings rose above the attempted
put-down and adopted the epithet as a name
for members of their society