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9 Οκτ 2019 · It carries a message to gladden the heart of every small boy who is now preparing, with seasonal relish, to Light Blue Touch Paper and Retire. For it means — should the significance of the date have escaped you — that fireworks are officially on the programme twice next year.
The full sentence was 'Light blue touch-paper - stand well back' later replaced by 'Light blue touch-paper and retire.' The expression 'Light blue touch-paper!' therefore became a way of suggesting someone had done something dangerous or foolhardy and needed to beware of the consequences, especially, for example, when having said something that ...
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If someone lights the blue touch paper or lights the touch paper, they do or say something which causes people to react in an angry or violent way. This kind of remark is guaranteed to light the blue touch paper with some Labour politicians. Tension between them had been building up for weeks.
Light the Blue Touch Paper. This saying means to set someone or something off, so causing anger or excitement. It comes originally from a strip of paper impregnated with nitre (saltpetre), a mineral form of potassium nitrate, for setting light to fireworks or explosives.
5 Νοε 2015 · Light Blue Touch-Paper and Retire. I’m at the NYSAIS Annual Heads Conference and it was inevitable that the phrase came to mind. I consider myself as ‘re-wiring” not retiring. But still. I lit the blue touch-paper over a year ago and now I’m getting ready to stand back. Not quite yet though.
The idiom “light the blue touchpaper” is a popular phrase used in English language to describe an action that triggers a significant or explosive event. It is often used to convey excitement, anticipation, or warning about something big happening soon.
