No sooner had the words ‘blue murder’ appeared on the cover of this august journal than a Speccie reader was in touch asking me to explain the source of this odd expression (why should murder have a colour?). It often comes in the form of an outcry –– ‘they cried blue murder’ –– and is a kind of complaint that can be used in almost any situation.
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