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
Victorino	beek-to-REE-no (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese
Dyson	DIE-sən	English (Rare)
Lewis	LOO-is	English
Lindon	LIN-dən	English (Rare)
Vaska	-	Russian, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Smiley	['smaili]