blue funk
Noun
Meaning
a state of nervous depression
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Examples
Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
he was in a funk
Bolden riffs on the etymology of “funk,” the epistemology of blue funk and examines avatars of what he calls “black organic intellectualism” from Duke Ellington to Gil Scott-Heron to D’Angelo.
Lt. Jerry John Rawlings put Nigerian military generals in deep blue funk when he assumed office as military ruler in Ghana 41 years ago.