e.g. “I’m feeling blue because I don’t have that big, milestone race ahead of me.”
A blue Monday is one on which someone feels blue, often because they must go back to work after the weekend.
e.g. “Facial recognition software can potentially recognise a ‘Blue Monday’ simply by scanning employee expressions”
Blue Monday is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as typically the third Monday In January.
e.g. “To mark Blue Monday (the third Monday in January), the city aquarium is offering a discount to try to lift people’s moods.”
This date was first identified by Dr Cliff Arnall in 2005; however, he stated in 2018 that the phrase was intended to inspire people to “take action and make bold life decisions” rather than emphasise misery.
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