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Blue moon   /blu mun/   Listen
Blue moon

noun
1.
A long time.






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"Blue moon" Quotes from Famous Books



... case with very few of us indeed. It is at such lecturing and debating work, and on squalid little committees and ridiculous little delegations to conferences of the three tailors of Tooley Street, with perhaps a deputation to the Mayor thrown in once in a blue moon or so, that the ordinary Fabian workman or clerk must qualify for his future seat on the Town Council, the School Board, or perhaps in the Cabinet. It was in that way that Bradlaugh, for instance, graduated from being ...
— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... place. Only I haven't had time to go there once in a blue moon. And just now it's those old associations pulling—something seems drawing and drawing me to the East. It's like a voice calling my name—'Nick—Nick, I want you. Come!' Funny, ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... reception of his distress had been so startlingly obnoxious that he would have died rather than repeat the venture. Then Smith of Dale's, Old Bond Street—Smith, who had cut his hair since he was a boy, and was his fast friend—had told him of Blue Moon. ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates



Words linked to "Blue moon" :   colloquialism, years, long time, age



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