Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blue eyed Maid

(The). Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, is so called by Home.

Now Prudence gently pulled the poet's ear,
And thus the daughter of the Blue-eyed Maid, In Mattery's coating sounds, divinely said,
`O Peter, eldest-born of Phoebus, hear.'

Peter Pindar: A Falling Minister.

Blue Fish
(The). The shark, technically called Carcharias glaucus, the upper parts of which are blue.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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