Apr 10, 2023 · blue movie n. a pornographic film. 1939 P. van Paassen Days of our Years iii. 93 ‘Blue’ movies in Marseilles and Buenos Aires. 1952 Billboard 3 May 3/2 There will be no more …

Apr 5, 2020 · Ye blue blazes of damnation! 1821 [Ire] ‘A Real Paddy’ Real Life in Ireland 166: Blood and blue blazes, swore old Mrs. Tarpaulin. According to the Word Detective: The choice …

Oct 19, 2020 · The second earliest in-the-wild match (from 1832) that I found seems to play on the connection between blue from "blue devils" and blue from "turning blue" with cold. As for the …

Mar 24, 2011 · 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 …

Jun 9, 2015 · Both "the meenester" in Hart's story and Dr. Miner (a Universalist minister) in real life are unlikely to have stood in their pulpits and filled the air with four-letter words; so it seems …

Jun 6, 2013 · 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 in England, too. …

Feb 21, 2014 · Blue Car Syndrome - a whole article there, but it's perfectly well defined in UrbanDictionary as... The act of seeing or hearing something and then suddenly seeing it …

May 11, 2016 · I want to know about the origin of the compound adjective devil-may-care: Cheerful and reckless: light-hearted, devil-may-care young pilots All OED has is The exclamation devil …

Nov 7, 2013 · Why is the sky blue? Why is it that children require so much attention? Why is it [or some thing] like that? When that form is put into what is called indirect speech, it becomes: …

May 12, 2020 · The expression "bada bing" and often accompanied by "bada boom" is used when something was very easily accomplished or as an euphemism of the nastier bits of something …