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blue in the face
Idioms and Phrases
Exhausted from anger, strain, or other great effort. For example, You can argue until you're blue in the face, but I refuse to go . This expression alludes to the bluish skin color resulting from lack of oxygen, which presumably might result from talking until one was breathless. See also under talk one's arm off .Example Sentences
Ministers tell you until they're blue in the face that they will build more homes and solve the housing crisis.
Ms Graham said she had "tried everything" to lose weight, including the calorie-restricting 5:2 diet and reading nutrition books "until I'm blue in the face".
As the cloud reached the French trenches, men began to clutch their throats, coughing and choking, turning blue in the face.
I got blue in the face saying “This is not ‘Seven.’
“Right now, you can empower your kids until you’re blue in the face about the internet,” Mr. Virani said in an interview.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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