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  What it means

  Literally “to feel the blues.” To feel melancholy, low, or down — to have the blues. Borrowed from English but fully integrated into Polish slang.

  Vocabulary

  • czuć — to feel
  • blues — the blues (melancholy)

  Grammar note

  'Bluesa' is genitive of 'blues' — 'czuć' here takes the genitive in a colloquial construction.

  Cultural context

  An anglicism that has become natural in Polish informal speech.

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