{"id":72816,"date":"2019-11-11T06:08:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72816"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:08:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T06:08:24","slug":"feel-the-blue-go-into-a-blue-funk-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/feel-the-blue-go-into-a-blue-funk-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel The Blue | Go Into A Blue Funk | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Every nook and cranny<\/h3>\n<p>This idiom is used to mean every part of a place. The word nook means a remote or secluded spot. A cranny is a crack of some kind. To look for something in every nook and cranny is to look for it everywhere.<br \/>\n\u2022 I looked for the keys in every nook and cranny, but I couldn\u2019t find them.<br \/>\n\u2022 I have been living in this city since my early childhood. I know every nook and cranny of it.<br \/>\n\u2022 They had decorated every nook and cranny of the city.<\/p>\n<h3>Feel blue \/ go into a blue funk<\/h3>\n<p>To feel blue is to feel sad or depressed. This expression has been in use since the late 1300s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 She has been feeling blue since she lost her job.<br \/>\n\u2022 I am feeling a little blue. I desperately need someone to cheer me up.<br \/>\n\u2022 Rahul has been feeling blue ever since he broke up with her girlfriend.<br \/>\n\u2022 I tend to feel a little blue on Monday mornings.<\/p>\n<h3>Go into a blue funk<\/h3>\n<p>The expressions blue funk and have the blues also mean the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 My husband goes into a blue funk whenever stock prices crash.<br \/>\n\u2022 He went into a blue funk when he heard that he had failed the test.<br \/>\n\u2022 After seeing his old mother in such a pathetic condition, he had the blues for several weeks.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cWhat happened to Rohit? He looks concerned.\u201d \u201cHe has been in a blue funk since his brother died in the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every nook and cranny This idiom is used to mean every part of a place. The word nook means a remote or secluded spot. A cranny is a crack of some kind. To look&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1856,1854,1855],"class_list":["post-72816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-every-nook-and-cranny","tag-feel-the-blue","tag-go-into-a-blue-funk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72817,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72816\/revisions\/72817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}