blue pencilling
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səl verb (used with object), blue-pen·ciled, blue-pen·cil·ing or (especially British) blue-pen·cilled, blue-pen·cil·ling.
to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
Origin:
1885–90
1885–90
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| blue-pencil | |
verb | |
| cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit] |
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