1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / C / Chopper on. [p. 21]
A person with a fit of “the blues” and intensely miserable is thus described. It is a slang expression sometimes used by printers.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.