blind man's holiday



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."
See also: blind, holiday

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Victorinobeek-to-REE-no (Spanish)Spanish, Portuguese
DysonDIE-sənEnglish (Rare)
LewisLOO-isEnglish
LindonLIN-dənEnglish (Rare)
Vaska-Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Smiley['smaili]