Showing posts with label blew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blew. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

blue, blew

Blue or blue means the color of the sky, or of denim jeans--
The baby's blue eyes may turn to brown before he is a year old.
Blue jeans are so common that most people wear them sometimes.
Blue may also mean sad--
"I'd rather be blue, thinking of you, than be happy with somebody else."
"Blue, blue, my world is blue..."

Blew or blew ( rhymes with blue ) is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) form of "blow", meaning to move by force of air, to explode or demolish, or the movement of air or wind--
The explosion blew a hole in the side of the building.
He sat in a chair all day and blew smoke rings.
The house was full of strange noises when the wind blew. 

Now that you know that, you can say--
"When they blew soap bubbles, some looked blue, and some looked pink."
"The engine sputtered and blew blue smoke."

Note--"blue" also means pornographic, as in "blue" movies, or obscene, as in "blue" language--
The network censor inserted a bleep in place of his occasional blue language.