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Brewer's: Blue Beans
Bullets. Lead is blue.
“Many a valiant Gaul had no breakfast that morning but what the Germans call `blue beans,' i.e. bullets.” —
Three blue beans in a blue bottle or bladder. (See under Beans.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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