blue-in-the-face

Updated: May 3, 2025

When you've done as much work as he's done there now, you've done it at last. I told you so." This last remark had reference to the fact that young Teddy Machowl, having been over-fed by his father, had gone into a stiff blue-in-the-face condition that was alarming to say the least of it.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters