blue book
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5.3
- noun
- /blu bʊk/
- US
:
libro de examen
- And she picked up that little blue book and she goes, why isn't this taught in the schools?
- a little blue book
And she picked up that little blue book and she goes, why isn't this taught in the schools?
- And she picked up that little blue book and she goes, why isn't this taught in the schools?
Examples
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Mac reversed the video to the point where his father was hefting the blue book...
Fiction book (1999) -
"Bring your own blue books," he said.
Fiction book (1995) -
Again, take up their blue books and turn to the page indicated by the Guide.
Fiction book (2001) -
Bring your blue books up to the front of the lecture hall.
Fiction book (1999) -
I feel like I need to open up the "blue book" and write out my final exam response.
Blog text (8) -
Justin Kloster looked from his blue book to his watch and back again.
Fiction book (1999) -
And now it was back to exams, papers, quizzes, and blue books.
Fiction book (1990) -
But I continued, course after course, falling asleep, taking notes, and taking Adderall right before a final just so I could put everything into a blue book and get my B+ and move on to the next requirement.
Blog text (22) -
Yes, there are all manner of project managers and software engineers clicking away on laptops, but you'll occasionally find a stack of blue books on a desk, too.
Blog text (28) -
During the exam, students were instructed to write their answers in a blue book provided by the university.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal reading 'a book that is blue' follows directly from combining 'blue' and 'book', so the composition is partly transparent. However, the specialized institutional meaning—an exam answer booklet used at colleges—is an idiomatic, culture-specific extension that is not fully predictable from the constituents and may require exposure or contextual knowledge, so it is only partially transparent to learners.
Etymology
Blue book is the small exam booklet students write in because schools gave a blue-covered book for answers, so calling it a blue book now means an 'exam booklet'.