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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

check this out, please

They are in a blue funk due to their country's national eleven going out to Italy in the semi-final. Their hopes of seeing Germany, whom(or who) they have been rooting for throughout the chamionship, in the final have been dashed.

I can not come up with a more suitable version.
  

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Hello IK "Blue funk" usually means "a state of extreme fear". Was that what you intended to say? MrP

— MrPedantic

  • Hello IK "Blue funk" usually means "a state of extreme fear".
  • Was that what you intended to say?
  • MrP
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Hello IK

"Blue funk" usually means "a state of extreme fear". Was that what you intended to say?

MrP
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Hello MrPedantic,


be in a (blue) funk
to be very worried or unhappy about something
He's been in a real funk since she left him.

Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms

I meant they were in a state of deep inner anguish.
Is the rest part of my writing correct?

Thank you.

IK
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Hello Inchoate

I find the Cambridge definition very strange. But then, they are very strange in Cambridge (trust me).

My Oxford dictionary meanwhile defines "blue funk" as "cowering fear; a state of panic".

Apart from that, it looks fine – though I would probably use parentheses, rather than commas, i.e.

They are in a blue funk due to thei
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