blind man's holiday

A phrase that refers to the inability to work at night (before electric light was common). It is a "holiday" because one cannot work when it is too dark to see. I don't mind that it gets dark so early in the winter because then we can go home earlier—it's a blind man's holiday! A: "What are you doing home so early?" B: "It's too dark to keep working so we got to take a blind man's holiday."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Robin	RAH-bin (English)	English, Dutch, Swedish
Vratislav	-	Czech, Slovak, Medieval Slavic
Atherfold	['æθəfəuld]
Louis	['lu:is]
Irvin	['ə:vin]
Cesc	SESK	Catalan