Meaning of blues and twos | Babel Free

Definitions

The flashing lights and loud siren of an emergency vehicle.

Ireland, UK, informal, plural, plural-only

Examples

“Five minutes later, Bella, efficient as ever, radioed him back with an address near Hove station, about ten minutes drive⟳ away, going soberly, or ninety seconds with the blues and twos on.”

“The new directive says risks associated with the use⟳ of so-called ‘blues and twos’ by coastguard vehicles “need⟳ to be mitigated”.”

““The hospital rang home and said somebody needs to get⟳ here quickly,” Coffey told the paper. “So my mum, who must have⟳ been in her eighties by then, came up and we did the flashing blues and twos down to King’s [College hospital] and I was operated on that night.””

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