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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.
I was under the impression that the phrase "mother's ruin" came from the England in the 1800's, where many people living in London did so in absolute poverty, and gin (the so-called "mother's ruin") was the cheapest way of forgetting your worries. But I've just heard a new possible origin: Canadians used actual jugs of gin as contraceptives. Hmm.
10. Apr. 2023 · My final chance is The Pocket Dictionary of American Slang (Wentworth and Flexner, Pocket Books, New York, March 1968 printing), which does provide some help: blue. adj. 1. Lewd, lascivious, obscene, erotic. Colloq. by c1900; perhaps because the color of blue is associated with burning brimstone. 2.
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.
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 ...
19. Okt. 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 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 ...
THough I don't think this is relevant to your actual question, the 'blue' in 'blue streak' does not have the connotation/meaning of 'rude'. It just means 'fast' (as far as I know). – Mitch. May 27, 2011 at 21:06. 1. @Mitch, one of the answers mentioned "curse a blue streak" which does have - that's what made me think. – mgb.
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18. Mai 2020 · This is followed by ruin your appetite, which gets about a third of the use, and decrease your appetite trails with about a sixth of the use. Changing the corpus to look only at US and UK English shows the same commonality, except that decrease your appetite seems to appear only in printed form in the US—it has no measurable use in the UK.
24. März 2011 · 4. "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.
