Examples of blue pencil

• Be thankful for a merciless City Editor and his blue pencil. 

• His blue pencil is often busy adding phrasing marks. 

• If it weren't for him I would give you the proofs to blue pencil as much as you liked. 

• It came marked with blue pencil together with a note. 

• Now, taking up a blue pencil, he crossed off the number five. 

• She found him sitting in his room working, applying a stout blue pencil authoritatively to bundles of filmy paper. 

• Apropos of repetition, a repeated paragraph on consecutive pages has evaded the head-down editorial blue pencil.

• Wherever they find there is any unreasonable charge for management expenses or for directors' fees they can put their blue pencil through it.