blue devils
Noun
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Noun
- (idiomatic) low spirits; depression
- 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
- "[…] the disease is either extinct, or exists in such a mild form that a short course of aperient medicine carries it off. It is sometimes called the Blue-devils now or the Mulleygrubs. Queer names, ain't they?"
- 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
- (idiomatic) depressants, especially the barbiturate amobarbital.
- (depression) mulligrubs
- French: idée noire, déprime
- Russian: зелёная тоска́
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