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21. Juli 2017 · a blue ribbon worn as a badge of honour; thus referring to the quality of the best gin [early 19C] gin. Green's Dictionary of Slang; Green attributes this as a precursor to blue ruin, for the ruinous effect of particularly bad gin on a person's health.
It was only in the second half of the 19th century that gin became associated as mother's ruin. Until then it had been known as Dutch courage, Madam Geneva, Mother's milk, (perhaps inspired by Hogarth's print in 1751?) Mrs Gin as seen in the pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Mrs Gin" depicted in Hogarth's engraving, and finally blue ruin.
10. Apr. 2023 · It's a blue world—blue Sundays, blue movies, blue business men and blue matinée girls. Contributive to this indigo eulogy is the news that Marie Prevost, Phyllis Haver and Harriett Hammond have parked their bathing suits forever in mothballs. But even more pertinent to the blues in question is the fact that our pet leading men are developing ambitions to become directors. It is said enough ...
5. Apr. 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 of “blue” is probably largely due to the alliterative charm of having two initial consonants in the phrase “blue blazes.” But the fact that it’s well-known ...
The phrase “working blue” came into usage at the time. If a representative of the Keith Orpheum circuit objected to the content of an act, a request to cut the material was sent backstage in a blue envelope. So-called blue material was considered problematic enough that vaudeville listings in local papers noted which shows were “Clean ...
30. Jan. 2021 · There is also a mention of "the blue death" in a William Herbert's "The Christian" (1846): "Pour'd the blue death on Mississippi's swamp, / And there join'd hand with that angelic curse, / Who from hot Gambia to Manhattan's mart / Spreads wide the yellow plague." It's not clear what "lurid pestilence" the poet means by "the blue death," but cholera seems a reasonable possibility.
19. Okt. 2020 · As for the place of origin of the phrase "feeling blue," it is striking that the earliest instances of "feeling blue" (from 1826), "feels blue" (from 1832), and "feel blue" (1835) are from the same city (Boston, Massachusetts). Nevertheless, that tiny sample of evidence is hardly sufficient to support a firm claim that Boston is the cradle of "feeling blue." A stronger case can be made that ...
20. Aug. 2011 · The verb meaning "to ruin or wreck" (originally of ships) is recorded from 1560s, from earlier intrans. sense "to be shipwrecked" (late 15c.). Often confused in this sense since 16c. with rack (1) in the verb sense of "to torture on the rack;" to wrack one's brains is thus erroneous. The PhraseFinder agrees that the phrase is rack your brains ...
9. Juni 2015 · It is to be feared that the blue lie has disappeared from the face of the earth, unless it survives in that kind of swearing which is said to turn the air blue. And this one by K.F.R., from The [Cornell University] Cornellian (1891), which brings together "blue from smoke" and "blue from swearing":
24. März 2011 · "Blue" humor is a type of humor that is dirty and offensive. So if a performance or public event "goes blue", it means that much of the humor is profane. From Wikipedia: Blue comedy is comedy that is off-color, risqué, indecent or profane, largely about sex. It often contains profanity and/or sexual imagery that may shock and offend some ...
