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blue funk

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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

We get into a blue funk every time Zeal takes a cold on his chest.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

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