blue blazes

English

Noun

blue blazes (uncountable)

1. (informal) Alliterative elaboration or intensification of 'blazes', a euphemism for 'hell'.

   What the blue blazes are you talking about?

   How in blue blazes am I supposed to do that?

   It's hot as blue blazes today.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 40:

     ‘I’m fit to be tied right now. I’d like to throw my cap up into the air and yell Blue Blazes.’