憂さ

うさ【憂さ】

¶ → 憂さを晴らす

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うさ【憂さ】

gloom; sorrow; sadness; 《文》 melancholy; 〔つらいこと〕 cares; troubles; burdens; crosses.

●憂さを晴らす divert one's mind from one's cares; take one's mind off one's troubles [worries, etc.]; drive away [《文》 dispel] one's gloom

・彼女は, カラオケで思いっきり歌を歌って仕事の憂さを晴らした. She took her mind off the cares of her job by throwing herself into karaoke singing.

・酒に憂さを紛らす drown one's sorrows [cares, sadness] in alcohol [drink]; drink away one's cares [sorrows, sadness].