Blue Monday
/ˌbluː ˈmʌndeɪ/ /ˌbluː ˈmʌndi/noun
Originally in German contexts. A Monday during which people choose not to work, especially for a celebration, or because they have indulged excessively over the course of the weekend. Now chiefly historical.
Origin
Late 18th century. From blue + Monday, after German blauer Montag Monday on which journeymen were not required to work, holiday Monday.
- be away laughing
- be a weight off one's mind
- be banging (or knocking) one's head against a brick wall
- be barking up the wrong tree
- be beaten at the post
- be beforehand with
- be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp (or burnt) stick
- be better than nothing
- be bitten by the —— bug
- be blown off course
- bebop
- bebopper
- be borne in on (or upon)
- be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- be bouncing off the walls
- be brought to bed
- be browned off
- be built like a brick shithouse
- be bumping along the bottom
- be burned at the stake
- BEC
- be called (or go) to the Bar
- be called within the Bar
- becalm
- becalmed