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View synonyms for blue devils
blue devils
blue devils
plural noun
- a fit of depression or melancholy
- an attack of delirium tremens
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blue devils1
First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences
Duke is always a “contender,” but these Blue Devils are almost universally deemed to be especially vulnerable.
From The Daily Beast
There is no prophet but the melancholy Jacques, and the blue devils dance on all our literary wires.
From Project Gutenberg
The dejection into which his "blue devils" had cast him was as nothing to the remorse that overwhelmed him now.
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And yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.
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You see the blue devils have the upper hand of me tonight, Myra.
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The hip or hyp, the vapours, depression of spirits, blue devils.
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