Citations:scream blue murder

Verb: "(idiomatic) to protest loudly or angrily"

 * 1989 — Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, Arcade Publishing (1993), ISBN 1559701161, page 61:
 * We carve up the state for our administrative convenience, these so-called nationalists yell and scream blue murder, and what do we do?
 * 2003 — Isabel Wolff, Out of the Blue, Mira (2003), ISBN 9780778313663, page 144:
 * And I was going to shout at him. I was going to scream blue murder. I was going to tell him just what I thought of that.
 * 2006 — Liz Rettig, My Now or Never Diary, Corgi Books (2007), ISBN 9780552553346, page 21:
 * Meanwhile the baby was screaming blue murder in its cot.