Miserable Phrases

Phrases

• A face as long as a fiddle
• A wet weekend
• Air Force blue
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• As cold as blue blazes
• As hot as blue blazes
• As miserable as sin
• Beat someone black and blue
• Between the Devil and the deep blue sea
• Beyond the blue horizon
• Big Blue (Nickname of International Business Machines (IBM))
• 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
• 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)
• Blue rinse
• Blue rinse brigade
• Blue screen of death
• Blue sky thinking
• Blue star (A slang name for ecstasy pills)
• Bolt from the blue
• Boys in blue
• Brassed off
• Bring into blue
• Clear blue water
• Cobalt blue
• Cornflower blue
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
• Desperate measures
• Doom and gloom
• Eton blue
• Face like a fiddle
• Feeling blue
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Here's one I prepared earlier (A catchphrase from Blue Peter)
• How sad is that?
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• In a blue funk
• Into the wild blue yonder
• 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)
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• 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
• Men in blue
• Midnight blue
• Miserable specimen
• Misery memoire
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)
• My blue heaven
• Navy blue
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Once in a blue moon
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Oxford Blue
• Po faced
• Poker face
• 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
• Scream blue murder
• Sky blue
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• Take a blue pencil to
• Talk a blue streak
• Tangled Up In Blue (Bob Dylan song)
• 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 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
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True blue
• Turning blue
• Wide blue yonder