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| Colorful English! | ||||
| Word or Phrase: | Part of Speech: | Idiom or General?: | Usage? | Restricted? |
| blue law | noun | general | regional, not as common as in the past | No |
| Meaning: | ||||
| one of the many, ridiculously repressive religious laws in the New England states which affected people's right to live as they pleased, dictating their right to make their own moral choices, including such repressive laws as the right to work and amuse themselves as they saw fit on Sundays | ||||
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| When I was a kid growing up in Pennsylvania, we couldn't even go to the supermarket for simple shopping because of the stupid and dictatorial blue laws. | ||||
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