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Definition of Blue murder
1. Noun. An extravagantly loud outcry. "She screamed blue murder"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Murder
Literary usage of Blue murder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1908)
"... to bed before twelve o'clock pm , you'd think there was blue murder going on
inside the house, until he went off on a sudden—un? ensible they reckoned. ..."
2. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"BLUE DEVILS, the apparitions supposed to be seen by habitual drunkards BLUE MOON,
an unlimited period. blue murder, a desperate or alarming cry. ..."
3. The Blue-grass Region of Kentucky by James Lane Allen (1892)
"... the risk of their lives; and there was blue murder in the air. I was a stranger;
I was innocent ; I was peaceful. But I was told that to be a stranger ..."
4. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1895)
"... blue murder even on, an' ill-talk an' ither things that I juist canna tell ye.
Then there's every nicht, when we drap work. ..."
5. Indiscreet Letters from Peking: Being the Notes of an Eyewitness, which Set by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1907)
"We promptly gave chase, yelling blue murder in an incautious manner, which might
have brought hundreds of the enemy on our heels. ..."
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