These are word's examples related to blue-pencil. Click on any word to go to its word's detail page. Or, go to the definition of blue-pencil.
Be thankful for a merciless City Editor and his blue pencil.
If it weren't for him I would give you the proofs to blue pencil as much as you liked.
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.
Brautigan signed each of the 16 copies in blue pencil and drew a small picture of a fish.
Evidently, virtually the entire movement had to be cut, and is crossed through with blue pencil, leaving intact a mere 12 bars towards the end of the piece.
A blue pencil was struck right through, and not one word of the article allowed to appear.
A great many of those cuts were accomplished, not by a cut in the actual grant but by am arbitrary stroke of the blue pencil.
Very often, a blue pencil is the best possible friend of those who want to make these reductions without asking too many questions.
Here is another case for his benign blue pencil.
I had in my hand a blue pencil.
I think that the blue pencil would come out at once.
It seems to me that the blue pencil would ask whether this is punishing the community.
It is a kind of blue pencil on the union all the time.
A vast bureaucracy with a red pencil and a blue pencil, giving the answers that the pricing system has failed to give?
They showed me a card in which there was a blue pencil mark through political economy, which meant that the man was perfect in that subject.
Blue pencil is also used pejoratively to mean censorship.
