English Dictionary

Black Monday

固有名詞

口語

Any of certain Mondays when undesirable or turbulent events have occurred.

日本語の意味

不吉な出来事や混乱が記憶される月曜日を指す名称。 / 暴落や予期せぬトラブルなど、否定的な出来事が生じた月曜日を意味する呼称。

Black Monday is often remembered as the day the stock market plunged, leaving investors reeling.

大混乱の月曜日は、株式市場が急落して投資家を混乱させた日としてしばしば記憶されている。

意味（1）

Any of certain Mondays when undesirable or turbulent events have occurred.

意味（2）

March 9, 2020, in the midst of the 2020 stock market crash, which resulted from market instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was followed three days later by a similar event called Black Thursday.

意味（3）

(colloquial) The first Monday back at school after the holidays.

[H]olidays were my most unpleasant time; for my mother, who never loved me, now apprehending that I had the greater share of my father’s affection, and finding, or at least thinking, that I was more taken notice of by some gentlemen of learning, and particularly by the parson of the parish, than my brother, she now hated my sight, and made home so disagreeable to me, that what is called by school-boys Black Monday, was to me the whitest in the whole year.