blue devils
low spirits; depression.
Origin of blue devils
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How to use blue devils in a sentence
Duke is always a “contender,” but these blue devils are almost universally deemed to be especially vulnerable.
There is no prophet but the melancholy Jacques, and the blue devils dance on all our literary wires.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonThe dejection into which his "blue devils" had cast him was as nothing to the remorse that overwhelmed him now.
The Dreamer | Mary Newton StanardAnd yet it has not the blue devils, but the blue angels in it, in the azure tint of its waters.
You see the blue devils have the upper hand of me tonight, Myra.
The Dreamer | Mary Newton Stanard
The hip or hyp, the vapours, depression of spirits, blue devils.
British Dictionary definitions for blue devils
a fit of depression or melancholy
an attack of delirium tremens
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