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Originally Posted by pdurrant
(Interesting that "black and blue" means the same in English and German.)
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It doesn't, actually. The German equivalent is "grün und blau", i.e. green and blue. Which leads me to believe that either the idiomatic phrase has changed (or is different in different areas in Germany), or the idea here really was to allude to the colors of the Prussian uniforms.