thin blue line

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The police. collective,colloquial
    — Crime wave overwhelms thin blue line [title]
  2. A flag or symbol representing the police, commonly associated with the blue lives matter movement.
    — “Obviously, you’ve seen caravans with the Trump flag in the back of pickup trucks and then the thin blue line,” Mr. DeMasi, a former police officer, said. “I think maybe people had a good intention, but it ended up giving the meaning of the thin blue line a black eye.”

词形变化

the thin blue line canonical

词源

By analogy with Thin Red Line. “Blue” refers to the color of the uniforms of many police departments.
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