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- (UK)The thin blue line is a term for the police, suggesting that they stand between an ordered society and potential chaos. (Police uniforms are blue.)(Dorking School Dictionary)
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thin blue line — (UK) The thin blue line is a term for the police, suggesting that they stand between an ordered society and potential chaos. (Police uniforms are blue.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
thin blue line — A line of policemen drawn up to quell crowd violence, etc (coined in imitation of ↑thin red line below) • • • Main Entry: ↑thin … Useful english dictionary
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The Thin Blue Line — can refer to:*The Thin Blue Line, a colloquial term for police and police forces. The term derives from The Thin Red Line and suggests that a thin line of police officers is all that prevents civilized society from descending into chaos. The Thin … Wikipedia
The Thin Blue Line (documentary) — Infobox Film name = The Thin Blue Line imdb id = 0096257 writer = Errol Morris starring = Randall Adams David Harris director = Errol Morris producer = Mark Lipson distributor = released = August 25, 1988 runtime = 103 min language = English… … Wikipedia
The Thin Blue Line (TV series) — infobox television show name = The Thin Blue Line caption = The Complete Thin Blue Line DVD format = Sitcom runtime = 30 minutes creator = starring = Rowan Atkinson James Dreyfus Mina Anwar Serena Evans Rudolph Walker David Haig Kevin Allen Mark… … Wikipedia
The Thin Blue Line — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel: Der Fall Randall Adams Originaltitel: The Thin Blue Line Produktionsland: USA Erscheinungsjahr: 1988 Länge: 103 Minuten Originalsprache: Englisch … Deutsch Wikipedia
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