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21 juil. 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.
5 avr. 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 ...
10 avr. 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.
6. According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, in the eighteenth century itinerant Parisian booksellers covered their seditious or obscene material with blue paper; the first citation for blue meaning obscene comes from 1818. Farmer and Henley note the French Bibliotheque Bleu, a series of books "of very questionable character", although they ...
19 oct. 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 ...
20 août 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 ...
23 avr. 2019 · @Mitch I’m at confused as you are! Λογοκρίνω is actually not related to censor at all. It’s the Modern Greek verb meaning ‘censor’, and it’s quite transparently compounded from λόγο-‘word(s)’ and κρίνω ‘judge, assess, sift through, decide’, so it means to pass judgment on someone’s words, which is exactly what censorship is.
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24 mars 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.
