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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."
Common Names:
Name | Gender | 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] | |