Blue Paper

Word BLUE PAPER
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To go to bed. The expression comes from the instructions to users of firecrackers -- "light the blue paper and retire immediately" meaning to stand well clear once the wick of the firecracker is lit to avoid being hurt by the ensuing explosion. Urban Dictionary

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Also, here's a fabulous origami wolf by Chad Killeen (blue-paper on Deviant Art), and also a guinea pig. ❋ Triciasullivan (2010)

He sat down and stared at a peeling blue-paper liner. ❋ Stephen Marlowe (1968)

I managed to get hold of a blue-paper manuscript book by the favour of one of the officers of our estate. ❋ Rabindranath Tagore (1901)

Within this pleasing framework arose the window display, arranged upon a bed of fine blue-paper shavings. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

-- This edition was issued in blue-paper boards with green back, the title-label being Lara/Jacqueline/7s. 6d. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Once it was a box of latex gloves (almost two-thirds full), another time a pair of forceps (never used), and for Valentine’s Day it was one of those blue-paper gowns (which Ali had ended up wearing as a dress). ❋ Phoebe McPhee (2002)

[Yawning], [Peter] said, "It's after [eleven], time to light the blue paper." ❋ Paul Gittos (2008)

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