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too early of a concession?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Wednesday, 1 August 2007, at 5:24 p.m.

In Response To: Upon further review: trivia (Stick)

I knew the expression "once in a blue moon" from being alive, and what the expression was referring to from reading the Encyclopędia Britannica.

Do you remember under what heading in the Britannica that you found this? I just looked in the index of our library's set and couldn't find "blue moon".

I'm getting suspicious that the connection between the saying and the dusty atmosphere is more in the imagination of some writer than in the person who coined the phrase. I'm looking for some evidence that ties the two.

My suspicion is based upon this: Since the references to Blue Moon in the 1500's are interpreted to mean a nonsensical (impossible?) occurrence, doesn't it make sense that this would be the origin of the term "once in a blue moon"? Think about the expressions "when pigs fly" and "when hell freezes over".

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