blue

blue
blue [blu:]
1. adjective
   a. bleu
• blue with cold bleu de froid
• you can shout till you're blue in the face, nobody will come (inf) tu auras beau crier, personne ne viendra
• once in a blue moon tous les trente-six du mois (inf)
   b. ( = miserable) (inf) cafardeux
• to feel blue avoir le cafard
   c. ( = pornographic) (inf) porno (inf) inv
2. noun
   a. ( = colour) bleu m
   b. to come out of the blue être complètement inattendu ; [pleasant thing] tomber du ciel
   c. ( = depression) (inf) the blues le cafard
• to have the blues avoir le cafard
   d. (Music) the blues le blues
3. compounds
► blue-black adjective noir bleuté inv
► blue blood noun sang m bleu
► blue book noun (US in school) cahier m d'examen
► blue cheese noun (fromage m) bleu m
► blue collar worker noun col m bleu
► blue-eyed adjective aux yeux bleus
• the blue-eyed boy le chouchou (inf) ► blue jeans plural noun blue-jean(s) m(pl)
► blue tit noun mésange f bleue
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BLUE PETER
Célèbre émission télévisée pour enfants dont les programmes vont du documentaire à la recette de cuisine et à la confection d'objets artisanaux. Les badges Blue Peter récompensent les spectateurs qui participent aux émissions ou se rendent utiles à la communauté.
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[bluː] 1.
noun
1) (colour) bleu m

to go ou turn blue — devenir bleu

2) (sky) littér

the blue — l'azur m liter

3) GB University

to be an Oxford blue — être membre d'une équipe sportive d'Oxford

4) (colloq) GB Politics

a true blue — un partisan ardent du parti Conservateur

2.
blues plural noun
1) Music

the blues — le blues m

2) (colloq) (depression)

to have the blues — avoir le cafard (colloq)

3.
adjective
1) (in colour) bleu; fig

blue from ou with the cold — bleu de froid

2) (depressed)

to feel blue — avoir le cafard (colloq)

3) (colloq) (smutty) [film] porno (colloq); [joke] osé, cochon/-onne (colloq)
4) (colloq) GB Politics conservateur/-trice
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to say something out of the blue — dire quelque chose à brûle-pourpoint

to appear/happen out of the blue — apparaître/se passer à l'improviste

to vanish into the blue — s'évanouir dans la nature

black and blue — couvert de bleus

to beat somebody black and blue — (colloq) battre quelqu'un comme plâtre (colloq)

to tell somebody something until one is blue in the face — se tuer à dire quelque chose à quelqu'un


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