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Silviapham Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
blue moon
What does "once in blue moon " mean, I heard it on the TV
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html ]Once in a blue moon[/url] = very rarely.
- html ]Once in a blue moon[/url] = very rarely.
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[url=http://www.obliquity.com/astro/bluemoon.html]Once in a blue moon[/url] = very rarely.
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I think it's called a "blue moon" when a second full moon occurs within a single calendar month. This happens very rarely.
(Mr. M's definition of "once in a blue moon" as meaning "very rarely" is the way most people use it -- I'm just adding some information about how it came to mean that.)
(Mr. M's definition of "once in a blue moon" as meaning "very rarely" is the way most people use it -- I'm just adding some information about how it came to mean that.)
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