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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.
- a blue-eyed boy
- a bolt from the blue
- be in a (blue) funk
- be in a blue funk
- between a rock and a hard place
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- big blue
- black and blue
- black-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 eyed
- blue film
- blue flu
- blue funk
- blue funk, in a
- blue gown
- blue in the face
- Blue Lives Matter
- blue moon
- blue movie
- blue note
- blue on blue
- blue pill
- blue ribbon
- blue screen of death
- blue state
- blue streak
- blue suit
- blue wall of silence
- blue-eyed
- blue-eyed boy
- blue-eyed girl
- blues and twos
- blue-sky research
- blue-sky thinking
- bolt from the blue
- bolt from the blue, a
- 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 clear blue sky
- come out of a/the clear blue sky
- 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
- 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 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 in blue
- once in a blue moon
- out of a clear blue sky
- out of a/the clear (blue) sky
- out of the blue
- out of the clear blue sky
- pale around the gills
- run around like a blue-arsed fly
- rush around like a blue-arsed fly
- scream blue murder
- screwed, blued, and tattooed
- swear a blue streak
- talk a blue streak
- talk someone's arm off
- 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
- true-blue
- turn the air blue
- until (one) is blue in the face
- until you are blue in the face
- what the (blue) blazes
- your blue-eyed boy
- your, somebody's, etc. blue-eyed boy