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
Arif	-	Arabic, Indonesian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali
Candela	kahn-DE-lah	Spanish
Bevin	-	Irish
Gaja (1)	-	Slovene, Polish
Ecaterina	-	Romanian
Zola (2)	-	Southern African, Zulu