cry the blues

Verb

broadly idiomatic

(music) To sing in the style of blues music. / (idiomatic, by extension) To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.

Japanese Meaning

(音楽) ブルースのスタイルで歌うこと。 / (慣用表現) 自分の悲惨な状況に対して同情を引き出すために不平を言うこと。

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Every Friday night at the dimly lit bar, she would cry the blues until the room fell silent.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

薄暗いバーで、彼女は毎週金曜の夜になると部屋が静まるまでブルースを歌っていた。

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Sense（1）

(music) To sing in the style of blues music.

"Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues," said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.

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Sense（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.

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cries the blues

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crying the blues

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cried the blues

（ participle past ）

cried the blues

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