blue smoke

collocation in English

meaningsofblueandsmoke

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blue
adjective
uk
/bluː/us
/bluː/
of the colour of the sky without clouds on a bright day, or a darker or lighter type ...
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smoke
noun
uk
/sməʊk/us
/smoʊk/
the grey, black, or white mixture of gas and very small pieces of carbon that is produced when ...
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(Definition ofblueandsmokefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofblue smoke

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One is worn piston rings, and then there isbluesmoke.
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One imagines that, with a puff of red, white andbluesmoke, it will be gone.
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Thebluesmokefrom generators, lawnmowers, pumps and so on tells its own story.
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It is an acid which, when it comes into contact with the chemical compound which they have been creating, sends it up into abluesmoke.
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I think they are mostly despatch riders and, what is worse, they have blaring radios as well, and often they ride worn out motor cycles emitting clouds ofbluesmoke.
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A boy said he saw the object land; his mother saw a wisp ofbluesmokearising from the woods and alerted authorities.
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This results in increased exhaust emissions, sometimes withbluesmokeand/or a distinctive odor.
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He wears all black with a green neck brace that producesbluesmokethat envelopes his face.
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It was released on transparent green vinyl, withbluesmokelines limited to a run of 3000 copies worldwide.
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The stated purpose was to reduce the characteristicbluesmokeemission for which the car was known.
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Lives in a large wrecked car and materializes frombluesmoke.
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Overloaded integrated circuits typically producebluesmoke(or magic smoke).
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