Difference between revisions of "Blue streak"

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* '''blue:''' the colour of pen used by "Shem the penman" when inditing [[ALP|ALP's]] letter to [[HCE]]
 
* '''blue:''' the colour of pen used by "Shem the penman" when inditing [[ALP|ALP's]] letter to [[HCE]]
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* '''blue:''' obscene, pornographic
  
 
* '''blue streak:''' something moving as fast as lightning
 
* '''blue streak:''' something moving as fast as lightning

Latest revision as of 10:20, 17 August 2008

  • blue: the colour of pen used by "Shem the penman" when inditing ALP's letter to HCE
  • blue: obscene, pornographic
  • blue streak: something moving as fast as lightning
  • blue-chip: a term applied in the stock market to the most reliable industrial shares, which are always highly valued due to public confidence in them → see bourseday
  • blue streak: Ulysses had a blue streak on its dustcover (i.e. the Greek national flag) → Shem is Joyce, who wrote Ulysses