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Brewer's: Sky-blue
Milk and water, the colour of the skies. Its name derision and reproach pursue, And strangers tell of three times skimmed sky-blue. Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Admiral of the Blue
A butcher who dresses in blue to conceal blood-stains. A tapster also is so called, from his blue apron. A play on the rear-admiral of the British navy, called “Admiral of the Blue (Flag…Brewer's: Barrell's Blues
The 4th Foot; so called from the colour of their facings, and William Barrell, colonel of the regiment (1734–1739). Now called “The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).” They were called…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.” —W.Maccall: My School Days, 1885. Three blue beans in a…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…Trending
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