The blue-rinse twins paid their checks and hurried out.

Malta has a reputation for being a granny-magnet but it's not all blue-rinse tours.

Norma sat by the door, a heavyset woman of indeterminate age, with blue-rinse hair, and a cigarette dangling from her mouth.

These days, however, jaded consumers expect more boogie-woogie than the retail equivalent of a matinee for the blue-rinse set.

'It's a gimmick for the blue-rinse brigade who read the weekly tabloids and belong to the Universe Book Club,' he said cheerily.

Mr. Rodenburg seems to revel in the groups - often featuring blue-rinse grandmothers and other unexpected spectators - that flock to his Theater Casa Rosso.

There I am, up on stage at my joint, singing my heart out for the blue-rinse set, next thing I know the lights start flickering and the power goes out.

On this point, the green fundamnetalists don't even realise they're acting like the most conservative elderly blue-rinse brigade -behave as I want you to, not as you want to.

The 330,000 signed-up party members who will decide the contest are derided as the handlebar-mustache and blue-rinse brigade because little is known about their makeup other than their average age - 65.

This effectively meant that Foaly could tune the bio-bomb to blue-rinse only Fowl Manor and not one blade of grass more, plus the building would be radiation-free in under a minute.

And as a wise, albeit overly defensive lady in the blue-rinse brigade once put it at the intermission of an avant-garde Irish play in New York ("The Great Hunger" by Tom MacIntyre), "That's not just in Ireland, you know; it's all over!"

On my way to the bathing suit corner at Barneys, I got sidetracked by the Jeans Bar (it happens), where a helpful saleswoman who identified herself as Angelica showed me a pair of blue-rinse Acne jeans, as well as the Seven Classic.

But in the midst of my blue-rinse twin set and pearls idyll here in rural Kent, it's clear that animals don't have a right to life, and it's the pleasure my country cousins take in depriving them of this in the name of sport that really worries me.

We might even let them give your beard a blue rinse."

The woman behind his desk has a blue rinse.

She has her hair done every week, a blue rinse, and she dresses just so.

"How would you like your hair today Blue rinses, highlights or curls?"

The jacket, with its blue rinse, has never faded, and the book sold nicely.

"I expect you'll have just the same effect on the old women with pince-nez and blue rinses."

The phrase entered popular culture as a term for elderly women, the blue rinse brigade.

On the same principle, bluing is sometimes used by white-haired people in a blue rinse.

Young women Tories fall at the blue rinse hurdle.

And the blue rinse that matched them.

Root had seen a blue rinse before.

Later in the 20th century, mature ladies had a blue rinse to conceal grey hair.

One blue rinse and our losses are minimum.'

Blue rinse was the slang term for the devastating biological bomb used on rare occasions by the force.

A girl who was a hairdresser gave Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia a blue rinse.

Roselli, aged 50, is a handsome, sallow woman with a delicate blue rinse.

The Shiny headed one thinking on the hoof again to appease the blue rinse set and angry ex-army majors.

Zenobia is a dignified matron, beautiful, about forty-five, with premature white hair tinted with a blue rinse.

"Blue Rinse Baby"

And tragicaly Labour seem now to be in an eternal love/death embrace with this hideous blue rinsed Hydra.

Baldies, Afros, mullets, blue rinses.

Hilda, known affectionately as the 'blue rinse boss', was, to everyone's surprise, to enjoy three seasons in charge at 'The Tip'.

Tillandsia 'Blue Rinse'

"Blue rinse brigade" is a somewhat pejorative term used, particularly in the United Kingdom, to describe elderly middle-class ladies usually of a conservative socio-political persuasion.