Unhappy Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A forlorn hope
• Air Force blue
• All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (the opening line of Anna Karenina)
• Are We Downhearted? No! No! No! (Ray Sherwood song)
• As cold as blue blazes
• As hot as blue blazes
• As miserable as sin
• As straight as a die
• Bathed in tears
• 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))
• 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
• Bring into blue
• Cash if you die, cash if you don't (Lloyd's Life Insurance advertising slogan)
• Clear blue water
• Cobalt blue
• Cornflower blue
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Cross into the Blue (United States Air Force advertising slogan)
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Curl up and die
• Deeper Than The Deep Blue Sea (Frank Sinatra song)
• Die Another Day (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Die a death
• Die back
• Die hard
• Die in harness
• Die in your own bed
• Die on the vine
• Die with your boots on
• Do or die
• Down in the dumps
• Down in the mouth
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eat shit and die
• Eton blue
• Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
• Feeling blue
• For keener refreshment (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Get down Shep (A catchphrase from John Noakes On Blue Peter)
• Good Americans when they die go to Paris
• Hacked off
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Have a bird
• He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
• 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)
• It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To (Lesley Gore song)
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Life's a bitch then you die
• 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)
• Live And Let Die (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Live free or die
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
• Marital disharmony
• Men in blue
• Midnight blue
• Miserable specimen
• More in sorrow than in anger
• My Blue Heaven (Gene Austin song)
• My blue heaven
• My heart sank into my boots
• Navy blue
• Never say die
• Not a happy bunny
• Not a happy camper
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Old habits die hard
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• 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
• Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to do or die
• Out of the blue
• Out of the clear blue sky
• Oxford Blue
• Parting is such sweet sorrow
• Refresh! Rejoice! Remember! Pabst gets the call (Pabst Blue Ribbon advertising slogan)
• Rhapsody In Blue (George Gershwin composition)
• Root hog or die
• Roses are red, violets are blue
• Royal blue
• Sad sack
• Sad state of affairs
• Scream blue murder
• See Naples and die
• 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
• Sucks to be you
• 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
• The die has been cast
• The good die young
• Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
• Those whom the Gods love die young
• To die for
• True Blue (Madonna album)
• True blue
• Turn that frown upside down
• Turning blue
• Wide blue yonder
• You'll wish you had never been born