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Blue wall   /blu wɔl/   Listen
Blue wall

noun
1.
The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers.  Synonyms: blue wall of silence, wall of silence.






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"Blue wall" Quotes from Famous Books



... lost her temper. "I wish you wouldn't talk in riddles!" But Fort was plainly unwilling to say anything further just then; he changed the subject, directing Mona's glasses toward a point far to the rear, where the blue wall of the contact loomed, some twenty miles away. The spot had been chosen, of course, because there were fewer inhabitants in that locality than any other; the discharge of the gun would mean an immense volume of smoke and gas, likely to prove disagreeable for days. Nobody cared ...
— The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix • Homer Eon Flint

... the heights, it was always a surprise to me to see the Pacific rise up as I rose, till it stood up like a great blue wall there against the horizon. A level plain unrolls in the same way as we mount above it, but it does not produce the same illusion of rising up like a wall or a mountain-range; the blue, facile water ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs

... the steps. At the top of the flight they came to a blank, blue wall. There was no sign of a door, but in the front of the wall stood a low platform, in the centre of which was set a strange, red stone. The professor consulted his chart, then opened his black case. From it he took another stone, red like the other, but not so intense. This ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint

... of accepting her as a comparatively movable part of the furniture, and he compassionated that husband-and-wife relation which, in twenty-five years of married life, had become a separate and real entity. He recalled their high lights the summer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour through Ohio, and the exploration of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus; the birth of Verona; their building of this new house, planned to comfort them through a happy old age—chokingly they had said that it might be the last home either ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Blue wall" :   wall of silence, blue wall of silence, cover-up



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