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Blue wall   /blu wɔl/   Listen
Blue wall

noun
1.
The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers.  Synonyms: blue wall of silence, wall of silence.






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"Blue wall" Quotes from Famous Books



... compassionated that husband-and-wife relation which, in twenty-five years of married life, had become a separate and real entity. He recalled their high lights the summer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour through Ohio, and the exploration of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus; the birth of Verona; their building of this new house, planned to comfort them through a happy old age—chokingly they had said ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis



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