een blauwe scheen lopen

Etymology
From earlier. Literally, “to get oneself a bruised shin”, referring to getting kicked against the shin when rejected by a woman. A number of verb phrases with blauwe scheen were in use from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century; the variant with was frequently used by the widely read author. By the second half of the seventeenth century there seems to have been a general preference for lopen.

Verb

 * 1)  to have one's romantic advances rejected
 * 2)  to receive a rejection
 * 1)  to receive a rejection