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blues
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blues as in:  sings the blues

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She spent the evening listening to the soulful blues, letting the music's raw emotion wash over her.
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    ... they were called "Masters of the Delta Blues,"  (source)
    Blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
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    Rock and roll, big band, the blues.  (source)
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    Sometimes people want to put Kenna in the rhythm-and-blues category, which irritates him because he thinks people do that just because he's black.  (source)
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    And when Holly took her tenor sax, set herself up outside the door that looked onto the park, and played the blues, the hounds all ran to form her chorus.  (source)
    blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes (notes or a low pitch)
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    In Ray Charles's absence, their North Carolina twanged blues made us sad enough.  (source)
    blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
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    The Syrian brothers vied for her attention as she sang the heavy blues that Bailey and I almost understood.  (source)
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    He could take something very jazzy, like "Tin Roof Blues," and whistle it so nice and easy—right while he was hanging stuff up in the closet—that it could kill you.  (source)
    Blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes (notes or a low pitch)
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    One of her poems, "Barely Audible," echoes imagery used by the legendary blues singer Billie Holiday in "Strange Fruit," about black lynchings.  (source)
    blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
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    And when, exhausted, the Sixteen had laid by their saxophones and the Synthetic Music apparatus was producing the very latest in slow Malthusian Blues, they might have been twin embryos gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate.  (source)
    Blues = a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes (notes or a low pitch)
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    A boy with a guitar sang the "Down Home Blues," chording delicately for himself, and on his second chorus three harmonicas and a fiddle joined him.  (source)
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    All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues," while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.  (source)
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    The smoky aroma hits us on the sidewalk, and a blues song pours outside.†  (source)
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    It glowed in alternating reds and yellows and blues under the overhead lighting.†  (source)
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blues as in:  feeling the blues

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    Herman E. Calloway was making everybody feel like they had the blues, it looked like Mr. Jimmy'd just wiped some tears from his eyes too.  (source)
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    I've got the blues and Hickey's a great one to make a joke of everything and cheer you up.  (source)
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    ... and hence he wonders how the student can sit alone in the house all night and most of the day without ennui and "the blues";  (source)
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    Her throat tight, she whispered, "But Ma's carryin' that blue case like she's goin' somewheres big."†  (source)
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    I've got the blues, I guess.  (source)
    blues = feelings of sadness or depression
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    She slept that night in the beautiful blue-green room, in the big, lumpy bed with Poppy next to her.†  (source)
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    He watched an owl flutter toward the school across the bright blue sky, a note clamped in its mouth.†  (source)
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    The page is striped with green, which is what happens when blue paint and yellow paint get together.†  (source)
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    It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.†  (source)
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    The last bit of daylight is gone from the sky now; the only color left is dark blue fading to black.†  (source)
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    He walked over to a closet, opened it, stuffed the money into a blue tote bag, and offered it to me.†  (source)
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    I was in a zone, concert mode, even if I was only in the front seat of my mother's blue Honda Civic.†  (source)
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    A whoop-whoop sound startles us, and blue lights flash in the rearview mirror.†  (source)
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common meaning

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    He looks at me with those baby blues.  (source)
    blues = blue eyes
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    In the porch she found a crowd of little girls, all more or less gaily attired in whites and blues and pinks, and all staring with curious eyes at this stranger in their midst, with her extraordinary head adornment.  (source)
    blues = different shades of blue
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