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A countenance more in
sorrow
than in anger
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A lump in the throat
Air Force
blue
All happy families are alike; each
unhappy
family is
unhappy
in its own way ( the opening line of Anna Karenina )
All time
low
As cold as
blue
blazes
As hot as
blue
blazes
As
miserable
as sin
Beat someone black and
blue
Better safe than
sorry
Between the Devil and the deep
blue
sea
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Beyond the
blue
horizon
Big
Blue
( Nickname of International Business Machines ( IBM ) )
Big Girls Don't Cry ( Fergie song )
Black and
blue
Blue
Bayou ( Elvis Presley song )
Blue
Eyes ( Elton John song )
Blue
Jay Way ( Beatles song )
Blue
Monday
Blue
Monday ( Van Morrison song )
Blue
Moon ( Nickname of baseball player John Odom )
Blue
Suede Shoes ( Elvis Presley song )
Blue
Velvet ( David Lynch movie )
Blue
are the hills that are far away
Blue
blood
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Blue
chip investment
Blue
collar worker
Blue
humour
Blue
in the face
Blue
murder
Blue
plate special ( a set meal provided at a reduced price )
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Blue
rinse
Blue
rinse brigade
Blue
screen of death
Blue
sky thinking
Blue
star ( A slang name for ecstasy pills )
Bolt from the
blue
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Boys in
blue
Break your heart
Bring into
blue
Bring tears to your eyes
Broken man
Burst into tears
Cheer up, it might never happen
Cheer up, it's not the end of the world
Clear
blue
water
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Cobalt
blue
Cornflower
blue
Counsel of
despair
Cross into the
Blue
( United States Air Force advertising slogan )
Cry into your pillow
Cut up about
Deeper Than The Deep
Blue
Sea ( Frank Sinatra song )
Depths of
despair
Don't
upset
the apple-cart
Down in the dumps
Down in the mouth
Drag ass around
Drown the pain
Drown your sorrows
Eton
blue
Feeling
blue
For keener refreshment ( Pabst
Blue
Ribbon advertising slogan )
Friday night and the lights are
low
( ABBA lyric )
Get down Shep ( A catchphrase from John Noakes On
Blue
Peter )
Get the
low
down
Got the blues
Gutted
Happy sad ( a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and
sadness
)
He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land ( The Beatles song lyric )
Heart rending
Here's one I prepared earlier ( A catchphrase from
Blue
Peter )
High and
low
How sad is that?
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues ( Elton John song )
I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
I'm A Loser ( The Beatles song )
I've been brokenhearted,
blue
since the day we parted ( ABBA lyric )
In a
blue
funk
In the dumps
Into the wild
blue
yonder
It burns me up
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes
unhappy
marriages ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
It's All Over Now Baby
Blue
( Bob Dylan song )
Keep a
low
profile
Kind Of
Blue
( Miles Davis tune and album )
Laid
low
Lay
low
Lie
low
Light the
blue
touch paper and retire
Like a
blue
arsed fly
Like a bolt from the
blue
Little Boy
Blue
come blow your horn ( line from nursery rhyme )
Long face
Long faced
Look on my works, ye mighty, and
despair
( from a poem by Shelley )
Love means never having to say you're
sorry
( Love Story )
Low
blow
Low
brow
Low
cal
Low
comedy
Low
ebb
Low
hanging fruit
Low
key
Low
life
Low
man on the totem pole
Low
profile
Low
rent
Low
rider
Low
spirits
Man Of Constant
Sorrow
( Bob Dylan song )
Men in
blue
Midnight
blue
Miserable
specimen
Misery memoire
More in
sorrow
than in anger
Moving
at the speed of business ( UPS advertising slogan )
Moving
forward ( Toyota advertising slogan )
Moving
right along
Moving
swiftly on
Moving
the goalposts
Moving
traffic violation
Moving
up
My
Blue
Heaven ( Gene Austin song )
My
blue
heaven
My heart sank into my boots
Navy
blue
Not a dry eye in the house
Old
Blue
Eyes ( Nickname of Frank Sinatra )
Once in a
blue
moon
One for
sorrow
( Magpie nursery rhyme )
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
Out of the
blue
Out of the clear
blue
sky
Oxford
Blue
Parting is such sweet
sorrow
Reduce to tears
Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call ( Pabst
Blue
Ribbon advertising slogan )
Rhapsody In
Blue
( George Gershwin composition )
Roses are red, violets are
blue
Royal
blue
Sad sack
Sad state of affairs
Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands ( Bob Dylan song )
Sadder and wiser man
Scream
blue
murder
Search high and
low
Seasonal affected disorder
Sky
blue
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something
blue
Sorry
Seems To Be The Hardest Word ( Elton John song )
Sorry
about that, Chief. ( A catchphrase from Get Smart )
Sorry
sight
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Take a
blue
pencil to
Talk a
blue
streak
Tangled Up In
Blue
( Bob Dylan song )
Tear jerker
The Adventure of the
Blue
Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Blue
End State ( Nickname of the US state of Delaware )
The
Blue
Mosque ( tourist attraction in Turkey )
The First Cut Is The Deepest ( Rod Stewart song )
The Home Of Paul Bunyan And Babe The
Blue
Ox ( Nickname of Westwood California, Brainerd Minnesota and Bemidji Minnesota )
The air was
blue
The deep
blue
sea
The
low
countries
The
low
down
The
moving
finger writes
The
moving
finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a poem by Fitzgerald )
Total Eclipse Of The Heart ( Bonnie Tyler song )
True
Blue
( Madonna album )
True
blue
Tug at your heartstrings
Turning
blue
Upset
the applecart
What a drag
Why have
low
calories when you can have no calories ( Natrena advertising slogan )
Wide
blue
yonder
You take the high road: I'll take the
low
road