Usually means: Loud, intense screams for help.
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  1. blue murder: Collins English Dictionary
  2. blue murder: Vocabulary.com
  3. blue murder: Dictionary.com
  4. Blue Murder (Beatrix Christian play), Blue Murder (British TV series), Blue Murder (Canadian TV series), Blue Murder (UK TV series), Blue Murder (album), Blue Murder (band), Blue Murder (folk), Blue Murder (mini-series), Blue Murder (miniseries), Blue Murder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. blue murder: Rhymezone
  6. Blue Murder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  7. blue murder: FreeDictionary.org
  8. blue murder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. blue murder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. blue murder: Wiktionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blue murder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Blue Murder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blue murder)

▸ noun:  (usually in phrases such as 'scream/howl/yell/shriek blue murder') A loud protest or angry outburst.

Similar:
scream, rout, hue and cry, shouting match, conniption fit, tantrum, temper tantrum, hissy fit, bloody, clamor, more...

Types:
premeditated murder, 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, 3rd degree murder, felony murder, more...

Phrases:
scream blue murder, like blue murder, screaming blue murder, screamed blue murder, screams blue murder, more...

Adjectives:
whiney, beef, crying, yappy, blub, shrieky, yawning, yapped, yawny, grizzle, screaming

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Similar:
scream, rout, hue and cry, shouting match, conniption fit, tantrum, temper tantrum, hissy fit, bloody, clamor, more...

Types:
premeditated murder, 1st degree murder, 2nd degree murder, 3rd degree murder, felony murder, more...

Phrases:
scream blue murder, like blue murder, screaming blue murder, screamed blue murder, screams blue murder, get away with blue murder, gets away with blue murder, getting away with blue murder, more...

Adjectives:
whiney, beef, crying, yappy, blub, shrieky, yawning, yapped, yawny, grizzle, screaming



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