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blue-pencil

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  1. cut or eliminate
    she edited the juiciest scenes

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  • In rush seasons it will make use of publisher's description, after carefully blue-pencilling obtrusive adjectives, but it goes no farther. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • Some people just use the good old-fashioned method of printing out the text to be proofed, and blue-pencilling the mistakes. The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
  • Robbins was looking over the morning _Pic. _, detecting, as young reporters will, the gross blunders in the make-up, and the envious blue-pencilling his own stuff had received. Roads of Destiny
  • Nor would they appear to be aware that the blunders committed by the censors, such as they were, were by no means confined to malapert blue-pencilling of items of information that might have appeared without disclosing anything whatever to the enemy. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
  • This blue-pencilling favours the intellectual falsification of the Book of the Exodus, well-known to the people and therefore impossible to falsify physically whereas the Book of Deuteronomy, a book of priests, was easy to modify. Cafebabel.com
  • He handed a map, with red-pencil and blue-pencil markings, along to von Schlichten. Uller Uprising
  • But there was no reason for blue-pencilling the entirety of paragraph 6(1) as inappropriate to vaccine claims. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Voice's racing writer, after a series of telephone enquiries, had finally located the hopeful Dennis Kinser and, not yet aware that the '' blue-pencilling bastard 'of an editor would be chasing him no more after Saturday, he had actually stirred himself to drive sixty miles for a face-to-face enlightenment. The Elvis Latte
  • The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the Damn! A Book of Calumny
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