The term “feeling blue” is commonly used to mean feeling melancholy or sad, but the phrase actually originates from which nautical usage?
A) Homesickness felt by whalers while out on the deep blue for months at a time
B) Blue flags flown after the death of an officer, meaning the crew was in mourning
C) A reference to The Blue Star Line, a shipping company known for poor working conditions
D) Blue skies meant no wind and baking temperatures for transatlantic merchant ships caught in the doldrums
