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Godfather Posted 22 years ago
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Blue-rinse brigade

I have tried many dictionaries but I couldn't find it. What is the blue-rinse brigade?
  

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Blue Rinse Brigade is a slang that is referred to a group of old ladies who have this inexplicable habit of using a blue or purple rinse in their grey hair. Often found in bingo halls. html

  • Blue Rinse Brigade is a slang that is referred to a group of old ladies who have this inexplicable habit of using a blue or purple rinse in their grey hair.
  • Often found in bingo halls.
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Blue Rinse Brigade is a slang that is referred to a group of old ladies who have this inexplicable habit of using a blue or purple rinse in their grey hair. Often found in bingo halls.

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Thank you.

I was desperately trying to ring Stanley to tell him some people like it (the film) enormously, it was just the blue-rinse brigade that walked out (of the cinema).

This means the old people walked out or actually the old ladies? It seems a bit weird to me. What do you think?

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