Idiom of the Day
talk until one is blue in the face
to talk until one is exhausted
I talked until I was blue in the face but still my supervisor would not let me take a day off from work.
Fact
Boiled grape juice was the fluid used as a lubricant for the first contact lenses. Eugene Flick, who invented contact lenses in 1887, chose boiled grape juice over sugar water to lubricate the thick glass lenses that covered the entire eye.
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