2006-10-27 19:49:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
You're feeling blue, down in the dumps
2006-10-27 19:55:12 · answer #1 · answered by Patricia S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means your feeling sad or down. But it comes from an old sailing term when sailing ships would reach a patch of water with no wind, usually close to the equator. The ships would drift at sea for days on end untill they reached an area where there was wind so they could continue their journey.
As most ships where from europe and sailing south, the expression was DOWN in the dolldrums
2006-10-28 03:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by TK 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
in the doldrums means
Depressed; dull and listless, low in spirits
Discouraged, depressed, or sad
Example: She's been in the doldrums ever since she lost the match
2006-10-28 03:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by young_friend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you have tripped over the clarinet players.
2006-10-28 05:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by vzhnri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadness is what dulldrums is
2006-10-28 03:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Avskull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be depressed, sad, the blahs
2006-10-28 02:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by Mindiwe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋