- having the colour of a clear sky or the sea on a clear day
- piercing blue eyes
- The sun shone brilliantly in the clear blue sky.
- His eyes were dark blue.
- She wanted to dye her hair blue.
- a blue shirt
- a navy blue jumper
- her vivid blue eyes
Homophones blew | blueblew blueTopics Colours and Shapesa1/bluː//bluː/- blew verb (past tense of blow)
- The wind blew the door shut.
- blue adjective
- Both candidates wore blue jeans.
- blue noun
- They chose an intense blue for the walls.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- aqua
- azure
- baby
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- (of a person or part of the body) looking slightly blue in colour because the person is cold or cannot breathe easily
- His lips were turning blue.
- blue with something Her hands were blue with cold.
- (informal) sad synonym depressed
- He'd been feeling blue all week.
- films, jokes or stories that are blue are about sex
- a blue movie
- (politics) (of an area in the US) having more people who vote for the Democratic candidate than the Republican one
- blue states/counties
see also true-blue
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bleu, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to Old English blǣwen ‘blue’ and Old Norse blár ‘dark blue’.
Idioms
See blue in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee blue in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbetween the devil and the deep blue sea
- in a difficult situation where there are two equally unpleasant or unacceptable choices Topics Preferences and decisionsc2
(beat somebody) black and blue
- (to hit somebody until they are) covered with bruises (= blue, brown or purple marks on the body)More Like This Alliteration in idiomsAlliteration in idioms
- belt and braces
- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spick and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane
clear blue water (between A and B)
- a complete difference or division between two people or groups
- Voters want to see clear blue water between the main parties.
- They failed to put clear blue water between themselves and their competitors.
do something till you are blue in the face
- (informal) to try to do something as hard and as long as you possibly can but without success
- You can argue till you're blue in the face, but you won't change my mind.
once in a blue moon
- (informal) very rarely
scream blue murder (British English)
(North American English scream bloody murder)
- to scream loudly and for a long time, especially in order to protest about something
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