Sad Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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