French idioms
What does “Avoir le cafard” mean?
Avoir le cafard
Word for word
To have the cockroach
What it really means
To feel melancholy, low, without energy. It is not clinical depression: it is that passing sadness that arrives for no clear reason.
How we say it in English
To have the blues
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