blue moon
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| blue moon | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the second full moon occurring within a calendar month |
| 2. | informal once in a blue moon very rarely; almost never |
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Blue moon
is always a great word to know.
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Word Origin & History
blue moon
1821 as a specific term in the sense "very rarely," perhaps suggesting something that, in fact, never happens (cf. at the Greek calends); suggested earliest in this couplet from 1528:
Yf they say the mone is blewe,Though this might refer to calendrical calculations by the Church, so that the general sense of the term and the specific one (commonly misinterpreted as "second full moon in a calendar month," but actually a quarterly calculation) are difficult to disentangle. In either case, the sense of blue is obscure. Literal blue moons do occasionally occur under extreme atmospheric conditions.
We must beleve that it is true.
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Example sentences
Every once in a while, every blue moon, audiences want to be reminded of why they made someone a star in the first place.
Movie phenomena are supposed to occur once in a blue moon, or a new one.
Since these require effort, only once in a blue moon does someone with a bad grade actually do it.
Every once in a blue moon, the fashion world gets excited about something you can actually wear.
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