2023年4月10日 · Wiktionary offers nothing I have been able to find. I have found suggestions that it is connected to the chemical used to process the film, the colour of illegal porn films, or a connection to the so-called blue laws in the United States. The OED is not particularly helpful, except in establishing an earliest date: blue movie n. a pornographic ...

2016年11月17日 · The initial “blue” isn't a very strong blue, it's more blue as in not the bright red that the meat becomes when it starts cooking. White meat has less myoglobin and more albumin . Mere exposure to air without any heating is enough to oxygenate myoglobin well before the meat spoils, so “blue” isn't really applicable to a cut of meat by ...

2014年12月13日 · I have already (past participle) I already (simple past) I feel like when I'm reading literature or any serious writing, the present perfect is always used with "already".

2018年6月3日 · Blue-sky thinking is the activity of trying to find completely new ideas. Some consultants are good at blue-sky thinking but cannot translate that into practical change. noun creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking or beliefs. Wiktionary defines it as: Noun blue-sky thinking (uncountable)

2024年9月9日 · In the TV show Family Guy, the character Peter says that he is not partial to the movie Godfather, and he says the reason is that the movie "insists upon itself".

The phrase “working blue” came into usage at the time. If a representative of the Keith Orpheum circuit objected to the content of an act, a request to cut the material was sent backstage in a blue envelope. So-called blue material was considered problematic enough that vaudeville listings in local papers noted which shows were “Clean ...

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2017年3月14日 · The term watershed is often used for this. From Cambridge Dictionaries: watershed noun (BIG CHANGE) [Uncountable] an event or period that is important because it represents a big change and the start of new developments:

Here is the Ngram chart for "on behalf of myself" (blue line) versus "on behalf of me" (red line) versus "on behalf of I" (green line) for the period 1750–2005: It appears that "on behalf of myself" is far more common than "on behalf of me" in Google Books search results—and that is before we remove instances where the person speaking "on ...

2013年1月21日 · The nickname Blue for a redhead originated from the gold fields in the 1860s. An influx of Irish fellows - many of whom had red hair - were considered feisty - especially after drinking, and would be the instigators of fights (a blue). Hence the catch cry - "There goes a blue" - when a redheaded Irishman passed.