Blue Beans

Bullets. Lead is blue.

“Many a valiant Gaul had no breakfast that morning but what the Germans call ‘blue beans,ʹ i.e. bullets.”—W. Maccall: My School Days, 1885.

Three blue beans in a blue bottle or bladder. (See under Beans.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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