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1blue Listen to audio/ˈblu:/ adjective
blu·er; blu·est
1 : having the color of the clear sky
a blue house/car/shirt/pen his bright blue eyes the deep blue oceansee also baby blue, black-and-blue, cobalt blue, navy blue, royal blue, sky blue, true-blue
2 : sad or unhappy
Are you feeling blue?see also blues
blue in the face
If you do something until you are blue in the face, you do it for a very long time without having any success or making any difference.
I talked to him until I was blue in the face, but he wouldn't listen to me.
blue with cold or blue from the cold
chiefly Brit, of a person or body part : blue from being exposed to cold for too long
Her hands and feet are blue with cold. He was shivering and blue from the cold.
go blue
Brit : to turn blue from being cold or not breathing
The baby stopped breathing and went blue.
talk a blue streak
US : to talk rapidly and without stopping
Sheesh! Your friend really talks a blue streak!
— blue·ness noun [noncount]
the blueness of the ocean

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