Definitions
Wiktionary
- adv. idiomatic Very rarely; very infrequently.
- adv. archaic Never.
GNU Webster's 1913
- very rarely; -- from the observation that the moon rarely has a bluish tint.
Etymologies
- See blue moon (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘once in a blue moon’.
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blue phrases/words
how blue is used
blue and white, blue apron, blue-aproned, blue-arsed fly, blue asbestos, blue ash, blue-assed fly, blue baby, blue-backed, blue bag, blue balls, blue band and 370 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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Idioms
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Say When
Time, time ... what has become of you?
postprandial, nocturnal, ephemeral, intermittent, amaranthine, perennial, incessant, matutinal, once in a blue moon, rubby, erelong, in a pater noster... and 10 more...
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in words out there
inpour, inturn, intail, inend, inhear, inhere, incense, immesh, a drop in a bucket, a shot in the dark, alice in wonderland, bear in mind and 66 more...
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