Brewer's: Blue eyed Maid

(The). Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Home.

Now Prudence gently pulled the poet's ear, And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid, In Mattery's coating sounds, divinely said, `O Peter, eldest-born of Phoebus, hear.'

Peter Pindar: A Falling Minister.

Blue Fish
(The). The shark, technically called Carcharias glaucus, the upper parts of which are blue.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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