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“And do look at these, Richard! he burbled, as always delighted out of a slough of despond by some new device.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘slough of despond’.
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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Creative Phone-Answering
Inspired by the conversation at den of iniquity.
well, hello clarice, house of ill repu..., braaaaaaains . . . ., you started it!, you raaang, your call is impo..., yellow, what!, moshi-moshi, chained_bear's pl..., slough of despond, den of iniquity and 60 more...
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Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Down in the dumps, feeling blue? Here, then, is a list for you...
feeling blue, down in the dumps, blue devils, mulligrubs, mubblefubbles, melancholy, lugubrious, gloomy gus, eeyore, doleful, woeful, woebegone and 86 more...
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In difficulty
Gordian knot, foot-in-mouth dis..., nadir, slough of despond, pity party of one, pinwheel escapement, failure pile in a...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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A Long, Strange Trip
You'll definitely need a map. Inspired by Son of Groucho's comment on Islets of Langerhans.
slough of despond, pit of despair, den of iniquity, islets of langerhans, hippocampus, boulevard of brok..., canals of hering, hesselbach's tria..., crypts of lieberkühn, angle of louis, circle of willis, traube's space and 102 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Depression
slough of despond, pity party of one, corrosive, lugubrious, failure pile in a..., woofits, woebegone
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Conversations for the Ages
A list of words that have fascinating conversations on them. Or just, you know, really funny ones. If I missed any, I hope someone will let me know...
Also see a few other Wordizens' l...misuse, slough of despond, drinking problem, sausage fest, vergerhade, baromets, todal, googlewhack, quetzalcoatl, cheesewa, cheesois, absinthe and 187 more...
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A Mint of Phrases in My Brain
Phrases/figures of speech I've always liked, and new ones that have caught my eye.
niche worrying, hilarious misunde..., above the fold, flying spaghetti ..., colossal gall, festering gob, unmitigated gall, smacked ass, endoplasmic retic..., nunya, dad joke, relentless hordes and 200 more...
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the Guestbook
Mental residents; visitors I've managed to catch at the door — found and autogenic things somehow unfit for other lists (my answer to reesetee's wonderful phrase-list; I swear, things are goi...
flesh air, gilded flicker, cinnamon-sugar sq..., pink fairy armadillo, percussive mainte..., seventy-five poun..., slough of despond, bliss ninny, acoustic shadow, apparitional eatery, upside-down, harmadels and 13 more...
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metaphorical places
canossa, waterloo, rubicon, eden, coventry, oz, gethsemane, calvary, serendip, the land of nod, between scylla an..., brigadoon and 77 more...
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hipcathobbes's Words
hyperboreal, gesamtkunstwerk, sacerdotal, slough of despond, piquant, lachrymose, docent, demagoguery, palpably, floccinaucinihili..., calumny, bricolage and 4 more...
Tweets
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yarb "...those of his friends who have the power should exert themselves to raise him out of this fearful slough of despond."
George Gissing, New Grub Street. Jan 29, 2008
reesetee I like it! We really should go there. And stay far, far away from one another afterwards. Oct 14, 2007
skipvia Ooh! Ooh! I have one. "Hill of beans."
All the good ones were taken... Oct 14, 2007
reesetee Uh oh. Oroboros is coming along. We're in for some major celebratin'. ;-) Oct 4, 2007
oroboros Naw, let's stop at the Passion Pit fer popcorn and a moompitcha! Oct 4, 2007
reesetee Fine. Sounds like a plan. *packing mud boots* Oct 4, 2007
chained_bear I'll bring the cooler, as long as we stop at the Pit of Despair too. Oct 4, 2007
reesetee *Checking map* Um-hmm. I think we can manage this.
Who's bringing the cooler? Oct 4, 2007
trivet I call shotgun! Oct 4, 2007
sionnach Road Trip! I want to visit the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Which I imagine as being located near the Lagoon of Lowered Expectations. Oct 4, 2007
reesetee I'll book the trip today. :-) Maybe we can stop at the Den of Iniquity along the way. Oct 4, 2007
chained_bear Oh my god. It's a real place?! Reesetee, we have to go!! Oct 4, 2007
reesetee Oh yes, it's The Pilgrim's Progress. But it still sounds hilarious to me. :-)
The Slough of Despond that sarra points out, for everyone's edification, hosts a "Slough of Despond 50 Km Road Race." That oughta get people out of the doldrums. ;-) And really, it does look as though it has perked up a bit. Oct 4, 2007
sarra I've always taken “slough of despond” to be a humorous phrase or perhaps an intentional malapropism for some more respectable phrase I wasn't familiar with; I'm surprised to find it's from the Pilgrim's Progress!
There is (quite apart from the actual famously despondent Slough) a real Slough of Despond, near Wiarton in Ontario, Canada. This could be it. Oct 4, 2007
reesetee Dunno, SoG. There's probably one in Pennsylvania somewhere. ;-) Oct 3, 2007
sonofgroucho That's in the middle of England somewhere, isn't it? Oct 3, 2007
chained_bear Sometimes I answer the phone like this. Oct 3, 2007