> > To me at least, "Once in a blue moon" always meant rarely, not never....
About once very two and a half years. <http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010302.html> > Indeed. And that would be true for all of us alive today. > But according to at least one source the original meaning > some centuries ago was closer to "never" than "rarely". Hmm. I wonder just how old the phrase is. Anyone with an OED care to look up the earliest collected reference? -- Glenn
