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词汇 down in the mouth
释义
Idiom
down in the mouth
Theme: SORROW
sad-faced; depressed and unsmiling.
Since her dog died, Barbara has been down in the mouth.Bob has been down in the mouth since the car wreck.
idiomdown in the mouthSad/unhappyspoken looking very unhappy:When she called me back she was really down in the mouth, and I felt bad for not telling her before."Why so down in the mouth?" "I don't know, just a bad day, I guess."

down in the mouth

Visibly sad or depressed. Molly's been moping around all week, and I have no idea why she's so down in the mouth. Rob has been down in the mouth ever since Gloria broke up with him.

down in the mouth

BRITISH, INFORMAL
If you are down in the mouth, you feel unhappy. George seemed a bit down in the mouth yesterday. The bad news left her feeling really down in the mouth.

down in the mouth

(of a person or their expression) unhappy or dejected. informal

down in the ˈmouth

(informal) unhappy and depressed: Why is she looking so down in the mouth?

down in the mouth

Sad, unhappy. The term refers to a mournful facial expression, with the corners of the mouth drawn down. Known by the mid-seventeenth century, it appears in print in Bishop Joseph Hall’s Cases of Conscience (1649): “The Roman Orator was down in the mouth, finding himselfs thus cheated by the moneychanger.” Occasionally it appeared with at instead of in (“He’ll never more be down-at-mouth,” Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante and His Circle, 1850), a usage that is now obsolete. See also down in the dumps.
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