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In a funk?

I don’t know if the blues as a genre originally gained its name from this but being blue as a phrase has long been synonymous with being sad and melancholy.

The long and short of it is, when funk first branched out of soul music it was also known as blue funk.

Hence the link – very farfetched to you perhaps ^_^ – and therefore, if someone is described as in a funk, he’s not doing very well. He’s not feeling good. He feels down. He’s low. He’s under the weather. He’s nervous, worried, troubled, frightened, so on and so forth.

In other words, he’s feeling the blue.

Still in other words, he’s under depression.

There it is, the link between funk and depression (in the world economy).

Here are media examples:

1. in a blue funk:

Tony Blair’s decision not to take part in televised election debates with the other main party leaders has been staunchly defended by senior Labour figures.

The prime minister was accused of political cowardice following Wednesday’s announcement that he would not take part in the proposed TV debates.

But Leader of the Commons, Margaret Beckett said Mr Blair had nothing to fear from Conservative leader William Hague.

She told the BBC: “We want the next election to be about the issues that are really important to the British people - issues like jobs, education and the health service and so on.”