Saint Monday

The Blue Monday is a name given to the work-free Monday, blue make slang for idleness in general or absenteeism in the workplace.

Blue Monday

Traditionally, it was common in many small and craft enterprises to work on Monday only " half power ". This custom has been pushed further and further in the past few years though.

One explanation refers to the custom, on Mondays in Lent, the churches with blue or purple cloth to decorate. The freedom to work the fast on Mondays was soon extended to the other assembly of the year.

1520 ordered Duke George the Bearded of Saxony that no craftsman good Monday hold him during the week no holiday should be worth while. In 1531 he renewed the ban because no one thought of it. 1726 prompted the ban of the Blue Mondays in Augsburg an uprising of the shoe servants, even the journeymen in other cities (eg in Dresden) were invited to join. 1731 a Reichstag edict was issued with a prohibition, which was renewed in 1764 and 1771.

On the custom of the saying Monday Tuesday hunger goes blue, back.

In hairdressing, as well as many in the restaurant business, it is still customary to hold closed after the busy weekend on Monday the business. Likewise, most museums are closed on Mondays. In the GDR, the bakeries were generally closed on Mondays, as compensation for the Saturday on which they had opened.

Make blue

The origin of the phrase make blue in the meaning " of his work do not engage, stay away from work or school without a valid reason " is not backed up, it is done with different hypotheses:

• Originated from the term Blue Monday for the non-working Monday of the craftsmen: "Blue Monday make " would thus be extended to mean " do not work, stay away from work "
• Created under the mediation of the Rotwelschen from Yiddish belo "without". This would make arising out of a belo Rotwelsches lo lau (as in the phrase 's for free, "for nothing, for free " ) welo in the reinforcing shape welau ("very bad, very bad, very bad, nothing, nothing at all " ) to " blue " and become one - though not occupied, but postulated - rotwelsches blue make in terms of " doing nothing" has been incorporated into the general vernacular.
• In an unrepresented by the Linguistics explanation, it is assumed that phrase would have arisen from the practice of dyers being, especially the indigo or Waidfärber, which can dry the dyed fabrics in a final stage of the dyeing process of the air, by only at this stage oxidation, the blue color is produced. Because the dyer would have paused at this stage with the work that would be from the technical process of the blue making a general language term for " doing nothing" arose, and also the term Blue Monday should thereof be derived because of Monday, the usual day for this phase of the blue coloring had been. This theory is highly questionable because the work processes of dyeing for all days and not only for the Monday and were in the process of oxidation for the dyers incurred other work.