Qual è il significato di "color me blue"?
Io ho trovato alcune spiegazioni cercando sul web, come per esempio
questa:
BLUES -- Regarding "the blues" as in depression or the music, the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris says it's believed this expression came from "...an abbreviation of 'blue devils' -- hallucinations, like pink elephants, popularly believe to accompany delirium tremens...the term blue in the sense of melancholy, depressed or despondent has been an element of slang, especially black slang, since midway through the past century..."
This is from an online dictionary: Blue Devils or A fit of the blues. A fit of spleen, low spirits. Roach and Esquirol affirm, from observation, that indigo dyers are especially subject to melancholy; and that those who dye scarlet are choleric. Paracelsus also asserts that blue is injurious to the health and spirits. There may, therefore be more science in calling melancholy blue than is generally allowed. The German blei (lead) which gives rise to our slang word blue or blucy (lead) seems to bear upon the "leaden down-cast eyes" of melancholy. From the First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable at
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference...ble/index.html THE DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE BY E. COBHAM BREWER, FROM THE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION OF 1894
Non so se ho bene capito, ma significherebbe "fammi impazzire"?
Mi ricordo di aver trovato qualcosa del genere in una nota di traduzione nel Signore degli Anelli o ne Lo Hobbit, ma andarla a cercare è veramente deleterio
