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 …

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 …

Sep 14, 2011 · 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 …

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 …

Sep 9, 2024 · In the TV show Family Guy, the character Peter says that he is not partial to the movie Godfather, and he says the reason is that the movie "insists upon itself". …

Jul 24, 2013 · The idiom in full is: "like looking for a needle in a haystack" it is based on the idea that it is very hard to find a sewing needle in a haystack (a tall pile of dry grass).

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 …

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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 …