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Once in a blue moon: meaning?

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Somu159753 profile picture Somu159753December 2020

It means that something happens very rarely or extremely rare.

AussieInBg profile picture AussieInBgDecember 2020
The literal meaning of a ”blue moon” is a second full moon which appears in a calendar month.

This is a quite rare astronomical phenomenon - hence the idiom ”once in a blue moon” meaning something that rarely occurs.