English Dictionary

cry the blues

verb

(music) To sing in the style of blues music. / (idiomatic, by extension) To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.

She loves to cry the blues at local jazz clubs.

意味（1）

(music) To sing in the style of blues music.

Young people have forgotten how to cry the blues, said Big Bill Broonzy as he lay dying in a dark room above the littered streets of Chicago's Negro South Side.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, by extension) To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.

The average citizen gets an extreme emotional delight in ‘crying the blues’ to anyone who might lend an attentive ear.