It's monday right??
I'm totally in blue mood!!
No idea wat happen to me,
mooooody~~~~
So my oli reason is- *MONDAY BLUE*
Starting when i heard bout tis phrase,
I asked,
Why not red, yellow or green...
Monday green??? @@
yarkkk...
Sounds so weird...T.T
Alright, bak to topic..
I found out why it's monday, not tuesday or friday..
And why it's blue, not purple or pink...^^
Let's break the idiom into its meaning components:
Monday+Blue.
Monday is the first day of the week for Christians,
Functionally, however, it has turned to be the first working day for many ppl.
Functionally, however, it has turned to be the first working day for many ppl.
Let us look at some connotations of Monday:
1. Monday morning feeling: the way people feel after the weekend (= Saturday and Sunday) when they do not want to go to work or school: I've got that Monday morning feeling.
2. Monday-morning quarterback: someone who says how an event or problem should have been dealt with by others after it has already been dealt with.
3. Don't you hate going back to school on Mondays?
2. Monday-morning quarterback: someone who says how an event or problem should have been dealt with by others after it has already been dealt with.
3. Don't you hate going back to school on Mondays?
On the other hand, wat bout BLUE??
Blue was first use only as a color in English, and people started to associate it with many different emotions, meanings, memories, attitudes, etc.
If you study the English texts, however, you will find most of the cases to be negatively-oriented:
If you study the English texts, however, you will find most of the cases to be negatively-oriented:
1. Her hands were blue with cold (= slightly blue because of the cold).
2. feeling or showing sadness: He's been a bit blue since he failed his exams.
3. a type of slow, sad music, originally from the southern US, in which the singer typically sings about their difficult life or bad luck in love: Billie Holiday was famous for singing the blues.
4. have the blues: to feel sad
3. a type of slow, sad music, originally from the southern US, in which the singer typically sings about their difficult life or bad luck in love: Billie Holiday was famous for singing the blues.
4. have the blues: to feel sad
To put all these together, we can define MONDAY BLUES as:
The low-spirited, cool, annoyed, sad, unlucky mood of those workers, students, or employees who feel that a mundane, difficult, unexpected Weekday is arriving to force them into going back to work, killing their joys and annoying them.
The low-spirited, cool, annoyed, sad, unlucky mood of those workers, students, or employees who feel that a mundane, difficult, unexpected Weekday is arriving to force them into going back to work, killing their joys and annoying them.
I'm so blue-wy...!!
Sweep sweep, come purple come pink...
I dun wan a =( face...
Nice explaination of MONDAY BLUE~~
Indeed,music has blues beat also....2ml will hv a gud day...^^ cheer up....^^
yea,
thank you~
indeed i'm always moody these days..
sigh, dunno those hormones inside me are arguing or wat..
duh!!
but thx to you, those ways you did can really cheer me up...=)
arigato~!!!
haha..nw i knw watz monday blue..
anyway~it wil b fancy colourz 2moro..^^
Nicole,
yup..2moro wil be colourful day...
just enjoy ourself to the top of the world!!! ^^
woow~~ i learn a phrase today~~
Blue monday~~
kaijun,
is monday blue larh..
not blue monday....=)