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Down in the mouth   /daʊn ɪn ðə maʊθ/   Listen
Down in the mouth

adjective
1.
Filled with melancholy and despondency.  Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low, low-spirited.  "Gloomy predictions" , "A gloomy silence" , "Took a grim view of the economy" , "The darkening mood" , "Lonely and blue in a strange city" , "Depressed by the loss of his job" , "A dispirited and resigned expression on her face" , "Downcast after his defeat" , "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"






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"Down in the mouth" Quotes from Famous Books



... life's fitful fever to set eyes on you. Heard you were threatened last night with appendicitis. How about it?" and John bubbled over again. In the next breath he greeted Belle as gaily. Laramie asked for another plate and Lefever promptly resumed: "You look kind of down in the mouth, Jim. What's the matter ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... for their little adventure, brought the colour back into his face, it could not restore him to his part. I remember finding him seated on the stairs in some rare moment of quiet during the subsequent performances. 'Hullo, Jenkin,' said I, 'you look down in the mouth.' - 'My dear boy,' said he, 'haven't you heard me? I have not one decent intonation from beginning ...
— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... him, as you told me; but he is awfully slow and mopy and down in the mouth to-day. Stebbing says he is sweet upon Gill; but I told him that couldn't be, White knew better. A general's daughter, indeed! and Will ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

... looks very down in the mouth," remarked Terence to his companions. "If it was not for the beating he gave me yesterday, I could almost pity him. I made an oath, at the time he was thwacking me with the ramrod, that if my hands were ever again at liberty, I'd see if it was possible to kill ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid

... employment, trusting, with the happy-go-lucky disposition of youth, to the chapter of accidents. For some time the accidents were all unfavourable, and there came a morning when I owned nothing in the world but the clothes I stood in. I found myself that morning very tired, very hungry, very down in the mouth, staring at the cork ball on the jet of water under the glass shade, and drearily likening it to my own mental condition, flung hither and thither, drenched, rolled over, lifted and dropped by a caprice beyond the power of resistance. ...
— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray

... affected our retainers considerably more than it did ourselves. The Q.M.G. in particular, not having entirely recovered his health, and being low in the article of tobacco, still believed himself to be dying, and was most unusually low-spirited and down in the mouth. As it threatened rain, we pitched our camp close to an old serai, in order to allow our servants to ensconce themselves under a roof, and to derive the full benefit of their wood fire, which they lost no time ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... the most wonderful change in this college. I rather think it is seeing what St. Ambrose's is now, and thinking what it was in my time, and what an uncommon member of society I should have turned out if I had had the luck to have been here now instead of then, that makes me down in the mouth—more even than having to pull in the torpid instead ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... lot of time over that just now; they're both as keen as mustard. Nearly as keen as he is. He sets people on fire. It's very good for the children. They're bringing him up here to spend Sunday. I think he hopes every time to find Nan back again from Cornwall, poor Barry. He was very down in the mouth when ...
— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay

... down in the mouth,—terribly down in the mouth. Till it was all settled, I did not know how much I should feel Marie's going. Of course it had to be, but it makes an old man of me. There will be nothing left. Of course there's ...
— The Golden Lion of Granpere • Anthony Trollope

... getting down in the mouth again. Don't you get thinking that. But even if you did, we'd make ...
— Fix Bay'nets - The Regiment in the Hills • George Manville Fenn

... strode away from the cave and left the blind giant groaning and raging with pain. Groping with his hands, he found the great stone that blocked the door, lifted it away, and sat himself down in the mouth of the cave, with his arms stretched out, hoping to catch Odysseus and his men if they should try to escape. Sitting there, he fell asleep, and, as soon as he slept, Odysseus planned and plotted how ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

... least, not much." Abe finished his piece, down to the last crumb. "If I seem down in the mouth, Sally, ...
— Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance • Frances Cavanah

... sublime, etc., sovereign, sulks. Consequently the family looks glum, down in the mouth, utterly unhappy. ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer



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