English Dictionary

cry the blues

動詞

広義 慣用表現

(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.

日本語の意味

(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。

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

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。

意味（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.

意味（2）

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

The average citizen gets an extreme emotional delight in ‘crying the blues’ to anyone who might lend an attentive ear.

cries the blues （ present singular third-person ）

crying the blues （ participle present ）

cried the blues （ participle past ）

cried the blues （ past ）