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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 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 |
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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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