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mrsdanvers | 08:05 Fri 01st Feb 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why is murder blue?
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Apparently we scream blue murder - if that's what you're asking - because it's a pun (that's what the book says) on morbleu (sounds like mort bleu, blue death), a corruption of mort Dieu (God's death).
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