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blue funk

British  

noun

  1. slang a state of great terror or loss of nerve

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Our adult daughter, 28, doesn’t call us often, but often when she does, she is in a blue funk and sees every aspect of her life as a negative.

From Washington Post Mar. 20, 2022

The beauty and transience of life may have triggered her blue funk, which she views in a matter-of-fact fashion.

From Washington Post Aug. 15, 2018

Civility puts me in a blue funk too.

From The Guardian Jul. 6, 2012

What I admired most about the book, I think, is the lack of sourness intermixed with its blue funk.

From New York Times Jan. 18, 2011

At least there's one thing we can say sure,— There'll be no blue funk in their fight.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

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