LITTLE BOY BLUE


Meaning of LITTLE BOY BLUE in English

ˌLittle Boy ˈBlue BrE AmE

a character in a ↑ nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children) . He is a young boy who is dressed in blue and goes to sleep instead of taking care of the cows and sheep Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,/The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;/But where is the boy that looks after the sheep?/He's under a haycock, fast asleep.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.