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Brewer's: Blue Billy
(A). A blue neckcloth with white spots, worn by William Mace. More likely the allusion is to the bill or nose. (See Billy .) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Blue Blood
(See page 149, True Blue.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue BoarBlue Billy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Blue Boar
A public-house sign; the cognisance of Richard III. In Leicester is a lane in the parish of St. Nicholas, called the Blue Boar Lane, because Richard slept there the night before the battle…Brewer's: Blue Caps
or Blue Bonnets. The Scotch. “He is there, too, ... and a thousand blue caps more.” —Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue-…Brewer's: Blue Devils
or A fit of the blues. A fit of spleen, low spirits. Roach and Esquirol affirm, from observation, that indigo dyers are especially subject to melancholy; and that those who dye scarlet are…Brewer's: Blue Flag
He has hoisted the blue flag. He has turned publican or fishmonger, in allusion to the blue apron at one time worn by publicans, and still worn by fishmongers. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Blue Gown
(A). A harlot. Nares cells us that “a blue gown was a dress of ignominy for a harlot in the House of Correction.” (See below.) Blue-gowns The bedesmen, to whom the kings of Scotland…Brewer's: Blue Guards
(The). So the Oxford Blues, now called the Royal Horse Guards, were called during the campaign in Flanders (1742 1745). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Blue…Brewer's: Blue Hen
Captain Caldwell used to say that no cock could be truly game whose mother was not a blue hen. As Caldwell commanded the 1st Delaware regiment in the war, the State of Delaware was…Brewer's: Blue John
(A). A petrefaction of blue fluor-spar, found in the Blue John mine of Tre Cliff, Derbyshire; and so called to distinguish it from the Black Jack, an ore of zinc. Called John from John…Trending
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