avoir le cafard

== French == === Etymology === From cafard (“melancholy”). This term originated from poetry writer Baudelaire in “Les Fleurs du mal” in 1857. Le cafard came to mean an extreme depression or sense of pointlessness. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /a.vwaʁ lə ka.faʁ/ === Verb === avoir le cafard (informal, figurative) to have the blues, to feel blue ==== Conjugation ==== see avoir === References ===