Related Content
- Daily Word Quiz: parallax
- Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy
- Frequently Misspelled Words
- Frequently Mispronounced Words
- Easily Confused Words
- Writing & Language
Brewer's: Blue-light Federalists
A name given to those Americans who were believed to have made friendly (“blue-light”) signals to British ships in the war. (1812.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
 Related Content
|
Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
