We, as a species, often use words, sayings, phrases, idioms, quotes, clichés,
proverbs, maxims, quips, adages, epigrams and epithets without actually knowing
what they mean. Sometimes this happens so widely and consistently as to butcher
the original meaning, and billions of people end up wandering around saying
things that are wildly inaccurate and linguistically nonsensical. I digress;
back to the subject. I was researching
a post over at Blogstronomy and came across the phrase 'blue moon,' or, more usually 'once in a blue
moon.' Of course, I know what it
means:
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This is not a "blue Moon", just the Moon photographed in the
daytime.
Image by Susan Cipriano from Pixabay
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'Once in a blue moon' is used to describe something that doesn't
happen very often.
For example "
Tommaths is read once in a
blue moon."
But where did it come from?
