blue pencil
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The first step in processing a set of data so obtained is to blue-pencil all entries that, judged by the accompanying remarks, relate to extraneous objects such as insects or bats.
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The secretary went into the adjoining room, to return presently with a file of newspapers, stitched neatly together, their columns marked here and there in blue-pencil.
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I never do, and Harmer has to blue-pencil my copy mercilessly.
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Good and true writing no magazine or newspaper editor will blue-pencil.
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And often I have had them blue-pencil wild statements I had made, which, on second thought, I wished withdrawn ... and during all the uproar I never had a reporter break his word, once given.
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