| 单词 | gentleman in blue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentleman in blue gentleman in blue n. colloquial now historical or archaic (chiefly in plural) a person in a blue uniform, esp. a policeman, a sailor, or a Union soldier in the American Civil War; cf. boys in blue n. at Phrases 7b, men in blue n. at man n.1 Phrases 3b. ΚΠ 1847 G. S. Fairbrother Punch in J. W. Sharp Vauxhall Comic Song-bk. 1st Ser. 206 Some gentlemen in blue are slily looking on; And..Punch and all his company are ordered to move on. 1851 F. Starr Twenty Years Trav. Life xxxii. 317 I was not long managing my exit..whilst the ‘gentleman in blue’ was busy examining other tickets. 1857 H. Lawrence in W. Brock Biogr. Sketch Sir H. Havelock (1858) viii. 125 The gentlemen in blue—the sailors. 1863 ‘T.E.C.’ Battle-fields of South I. 246 As soon as any of us..marched out [from the trees]..these gentlemen in blue would invariably ‘skedaddle!’ 1922 C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe Kashmir in Sunlight & Shade xxiii. 290 The prisoner had escaped in the night; nor were the gentlemen in blue able to trace him. 1990 B. King Bullet for Stonewall iv. 69 The old man..hates Yankees, so it's best not to say anything that could be construed as favorable to the gentlemen in blue. < as lemmas |
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