be blue in the face

常见例句

Then they could talk about her till they went blue in the face, Bertha Supple too, and Edy, little spitfire, because she would be twentytwo in November.
那样，大家就会议论她，直到脸上发青。伯莎·萨波尔也不例外；还有小炮竹伊迪，因为十一月她就满二十岁了。
The code that says: no synthetic blue jackets with body armour (they are for sissies like me), no full-face helmets (also for girly-men) and gloves are only to be worn in snowstorms.
规则是这么写的：没有合成的蓝色的护体夹克（它们是为像我这样的胆小鬼设计的），没有全罩式安全帽（为娘娘腔的男人设计的），手套是只在暴风雪天戴的。