"turn the air blue" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "turns the air blue",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turning the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "expansion": "turn the air blue (third-person singular simple present turns the air blue, present participle turning the air blue, simple past and past participle turned the air blue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Isabella Castelar, The Spanish Treasure: A Story of Love and the Love of Gold, page 228",
          "text": "... he then relieved his feelings by kicking the lot, collectively and separately, swearing continuously in a strain calculated to turn the air blue all around him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak a stream of bad language; to curse and swear."
      ],
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          "stream",
          "stream"
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        [
          "bad language",
          "bad language"
        ],
        [
          "curse",
          "curse"
        ],
        [
          "swear",
          "swear"
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        "(idiomatic) To speak a stream of bad language; to curse and swear."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "turn the air blue"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "turns the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turning the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "turned the air blue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1893, Isabella Castelar, The Spanish Treasure: A Story of Love and the Love of Gold, page 228",
          "text": "... he then relieved his feelings by kicking the lot, collectively and separately, swearing continuously in a strain calculated to turn the air blue all around him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To speak a stream of bad language; to curse and swear."
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          "stream"
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          "bad language",
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        ],
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          "curse",
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          "swear",
          "swear"
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        "(idiomatic) To speak a stream of bad language; to curse and swear."
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  "word": "turn the air blue"
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