in the blues in English

be depressed, in a melancholy mood

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1. Led Zeppelin's music was rooted in the blues.

2. Gifford had gone overboard a bit in the blues though ... For some reason this thought made Edwin chuckle to himself.

3. In this series of lessons, we’ll take a look at constructing walking Basslines over some common chord progressions that we encounter in the blues

4. THE Bluesman is an point of view documentary portrait of blues musician, Big Dave McLean and his compelling story about life in the blues

5. Coochie (n.) "vagina," slang, by 1991, perhaps from hoochie-Coochie, especially in the blues song "Hoochie Coochie Man" by Willie Dixon (1954), featuring a sexually suggestive phrase that traces at least to the 1893 World's Fair (see hoochy koochy).