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blue blazes

blue blazes noun: alliterative elaboration or intensification of 'blazes', a euphemism for 'hell'.

Noun

blue blazes (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Alliterative elaboration or intensification of 'blazes', a euphemism for 'hell'.
    • What the blue blazes are you talking about?
    • How in blue blazes am I supposed to do that?

Examples of blue blazes in a sentence

  • It's hot as blue blazes today.
  • I’d like to throw my cap up into the air and yell Blue Blazes.’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 40:

Questions about blue blazes

What does blue blazes mean?
Blue blazes means alliterative elaboration or intensification of 'blazes', a euphemism for 'hell'.
How do you use blue blazes in a sentence?
It's hot as blue blazes today.
What part of speech is blue blazes?
Blue blazes is a noun.

Words near blue blazes in the dictionary

  1. blue bibles
  2. blue Billy
  3. blue bindweed
  4. blue blanket
  5. blue blankets
  6. blue blazes
  7. blue bloater
  8. blue bloaters
  9. blue blood
  10. blue bloods
  11. blue blossom

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