feel blue

Idioms and Phrases

Be depressed or sad, as in I was really feeling blue after she told me she was leaving . The use of blue to mean “sad” dates from the late 1300s. See also blue funk , def. 2; have the blues .

Example Sentences

But it does no good to feel blue over it; you'll come back again all right, anyway.

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I am still around among wounded same, but will not make you feel blue by filling my letter with sad particulars.

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It's enough to make a fellow feel blue, listenin' to her complainin' and groanin' all the time.

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Even the faint odor of carbolic acid, compounded with that of other unknown chemicals, was enough to make a man feel blue.

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I can feel blue lightning chasing up and down my spine right now.

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