Once in a blue moon. Very rarely indeed.
⁂ On December 10th, 1883, we had a “blue moon.” The winter was unusually mild.
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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.