Talk:once in a blue moon

RFV discussion: August–November 2014

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once in a blue moon

Rfv-sense "(archaic) Never." --WikiTiki89 04:19, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

It's been there from the original entry in 2005, but I can find no usages with this sense, nor can the OED, though their earliest cite is only from 1833. Presumably "archaic" must be older than this? Dbfirs 19:12, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

SnoopY who created the entry had not edited for seven years so we can't ask him. Googe Books finds no archaic usages. Can we assume that it was an error? Dbfirs 07:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

• RFV-sense failed: no attesting quotations provided. --Dan Polansky (talk) 21:07, 30 November 2014 (UTC)