blue

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A n
1 (colour) bleu m ; to go ou turn blue bleuir, devenir bleu ;
2 (sky) littér the blue l'azur m liter ;
3 GB Univ (honour) to be/get an Oxford/Cambridge blue être/devenir membre d'une équipe sportive d'Oxford/de Cambridge ;
4 GB Pol a true blue un partisan ardent du parti Conservateur ;
5 US Hist (in civil war) nordiste mf.
B blues npl
1 Mus the blues le blues m ; to sing/play the blues chanter/jouer du blues ;
2 (depression) the blues le cafard ; to have the blues avoir le cafard .
C blues modif Mus [music, musician, fan, festival] de blues.
D adj
1 (in colour) bleu ; fig to be blue from ou with the cold être bleu de froid ;
2 (depressed) to feel blue avoir le cafard ; to look blue avoir l'air déprimé ;
3 (smutty) [film] porno ; [joke] osé, cochon/-onne ;
4 GB Pol conservateur/-trice.
E vtr GB (squander) to blue (all) one's money on sth dépenser tout son fric sur qch .
Idioms
to say sth out of the blue dire qch à brûle-pourpoint ; to appear/happen out of the blue apparaître/se passer à l'improviste ; to go off into the blue partir à l'aventure ; to vanish into the blue s'évanouir dans la nature ; the air was blue! les gros mots fusaient! ; black and blue couvert de bleus ; to beat sb black and blue battre qn comme plâtre ; to throw a blue fit piquer une crise ; to tell sb sth/repeat sth (to sb) until one is blue in the face se tuer à dire qch à qn/à répéter qch (à qn) ; you can shout until you're blue in the face, I'm going anyway! cause toujours, j'y vais quand même ! ; ⇒ moon, murder.

Big English-French dictionary. 2003.

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