Advertisement. Airbus, which is under increasing pressure to prove the viability of its A380 production rates, yesterday conceded that it still needs to fill a âsingle-digit numberâ of production slots for the type in 2015.dvertisement. Airbus, which is under increasing pressure to prove the viability of its A380 production rates, yesterday conceded that it still needs to fill a âsingle-digit numberâ of production slots for the type in 2015.
Where did the phrase 'once in a blue moon' come from? A folklorist traces the convoluted evolution of the phrase, while discussing why it adopted the many meanings it has throughout history.
blue moon (n.) a long time, 1821, often in phrases indicating something rarely occurring. Compare at the Greek calends (from an ancient Roman phrase alluding to the fact that the Greeks had nothing corresponding to the Roman calends), and the native in the reign of Queen Dick and Saint Geoffrey's Day Never, there being no saint of that name, reported in Grose (1788).