blue jeans
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- noun
- /blu dʒiːnz/
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- He chose his favorite blue jeans to wear while fixing the car.
- wearing blue jeans
- dress down in blue jeans
So, so how they make blue jeans is horrific.
- So, so how they make blue jeans is horrific.
- Obviously it will not go with blue jeans for the work Christmas party.
- The prisoners all in grey sweatshirts, blue jeans, joked I looked like them fit in.
- When you watch the people who sew like blue jeans for a living go, it's so humbling.
- Enjoy us because they're they're so they are so wealthy that they only care about wearing blue jeans and a blue T-shirt.
- I would like to see, I would like to see Mike Pence play shirtless volleyball in blue jeans, obviously, if his wife was there.
- If it's summertime, he's going to have on a white T-shirt, blue jeans and some Timberland boots because that's the outfit that a lot of young people wear in that area.
- And I mean long haired Rolling Stones fan, blue jeans, Cuban hill birds a lot.
- He got on a blue jeans suit with some Gray sweatpants.
Examples
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She loves wearing her blue jeans on casual Fridays at work.
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Down the long hallway, Nancy strides toward him in her blue jeans and cowboy boots.
Fiction book (1992) -
Am I going to buy some brand new blue jeans or am I going to pay my rent this month?
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Obviously it will not go with blue jeans for the work Christmas party.
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I love a cowboy in his tight blue jeans.
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I decided to pair these blue jeans with these blue Nikes.
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Ronald Reagan looked great in blue jeans when he was working at his ranch.
Blog text (33) -
The purchaser buys the product specifically to obtain the benefits that good blue jeans provide.
Academic text (1998) -
Dressed in a flannel shirt and blue jeans, I try to sharpen my focus.
Fiction book (1996) -
Most of the men in the room wore blue jeans and boots, plaid shirts, and cowboy hats.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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Trousers made from denim, usually worn as casual clothes
Trousers made from strong cotton cloth, often blue, that people wear for work or casual use
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'close-fitting trousers made of blue denim' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'blue' (a color) with 'jeans' (denim trousers); the adjective+noun composition gives the exact expected sense and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both words. This is a common, literal descriptive pattern in English (and in many other languages), so there is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift that would block comprehension.
Etymology
Blue jeans started as strong work pants in the 1800s. The word jeans was a name for a tough cloth and the pants were dyed blue to hide dirt for miners, so today blue jeans means 'casual, long-lasting trousers'.