idiom · informal
feel blue
UK/fiːl bluː/US/fil bluː/FEEL·BLUE
speakingtask2
to feel sad or depressed
Examples
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Band 8 sentence
“I must admit I felt a bit blue after hearing the news, but it passed within a day or two.”
Collocations
- feel a bit blue
- feel blue about something
Word family
feel blue phrase/verbblue (adj) adjective
Common mistakes
I felt blue in yesterday→I felt blue yesterday
feel the blue→feel blue
Say it for a higher band
5sad→6down→7+feel blue
Synonyms
feel down
be low
Easily confused
in the doldrums
“After the project's failure, the team was in the doldrums for weeks.”
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