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*blues 1. sadness; a mood of depression. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) You'll have to excuse Bill. He's getting the blues thinking about Jane. I get the blues every time I hear that song. 2. a traditional style of popular music characterized by lyrics expressing hardship, lost love, etc. Buddy had been singing the blues ever since the Depression. the baby blues a feeling of sadness that some women experience after they have given birth to a baby According to this article, as many as 60% of women suffer from the baby blues. See cry like a baby, throw the baby out with the bath water, wet the baby's headSee also: baby sing the blues to complain Computer programmers are singing the blues because business is bad and no one is hiring. Etymology: based on the type of music called the blues (a musical form in which songs often are about difficulties or bad luck) See also: sing How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The latter involves Jackson's just-divorced, reformed bluesman Lazarus finding the beaten, abused Rae (Ricci) near his farmhouse and nursing her back to health -- but also keeping her chained to his radiator while he tries to "cure" her of raging nymphomania. That is, until Andy meets a mysterious man in black and, like the legend of bluesman Robert Johnson, realizes he's sold his soul to achieve his goal of success--and worst of all, deserted Glory, with whom he's in love. There's "Genesis Blues," which situates the Garden of Eden in the poverty of the Mississippi Delta, and Creation in the moment when the first bluesman laid the first glass bottleneck across a guitar string. |
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