When you feel sad, one might say you...

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Title:	When you feel sad, one might say you...
Answer:	have the blues

Hints:	1. A color 2. It coincides with a sad feeling

Equivalents:	1. Why the long face?

Explanation:	Whenever someone is sad, usually we connect sadness with the color blue. Blue is always thought of as the sad color, so whenever you see that someone is sad, you might ask them, 'Why so blue?' instead of 'Why so sad?' or 'Looks like someone's got the blues' etc.
English > Popular Expressions > Emotions

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Average Rating		4.1
# of votes		12
# of Garbage Votes		1
# of Garbage Votes by native speakers		0

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Total found: 12 !
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Andreia

Rating: 4

February 24, 2021

Natali

Rating: 5

January 5, 2021

Instead of "have the blues", in Russian we say "Почему такая кислая мина?"

Guest

Rating: 4

December 16, 2020

Guest

Rating: 4

November 24, 2020

Instead of "have the blues", in French we say "avoir un coup de blues"

Guest

Rating: 5

June 22, 2019

Instead of "have the blues", in French we say "Tu es triste ? ou Tu t'ennuies ?"

Bonhyo K.

Rating: 5

May 8, 2019

Riza

Rating: 5

December 18, 2018

Guest

Rating: 0

December 8, 2018

very good
Instead of "have the blues", in Spanish we say "tengo el azul"

Guest

Rating: 4

August 29, 2018

Garduza

Rating: 5

July 29, 2018

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