down-in-the-mouth

A down-in-the-mouth Detroit is slimming down what's typically a marquee event for the Motor City.

Detroit Car Show Hit by Industry's Gloom 2008

The down-in-the-mouth settlement consisted of a few flimsy pine-fronted stores, an unpainted post office, a saloon, and, off the main street, a scattering of houses.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

The down-in-the-mouth settlement consisted of a few flimsy pine-fronted stores, an unpainted post office, a saloon, and, off the main street, a scattering of houses.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

The down-in-the-mouth settlement consisted of a few flimsy pine-fronted stores, an unpainted post office, a saloon, and, off the main street, a scattering of houses.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

The down-in-the-mouth settlement consisted of a few flimsy pine-fronted stores, an unpainted post office, a saloon, and, off the main street, a scattering of houses.

Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007

"People were feeling down-in-the-mouth and glum about things; it was a traumatic spring," said Ms. Pulitzer earnestly as the guests started to filter out into the balmy night.

In Market Slump, Courtney Pulitzer Kicks Things Up 2001

A pity, but - "he smiled consolingly at Elspeth, who was looking down-in-the-mouth" - perhaps another year.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

There is something brisk and energetic and active about her that makes of her a sight good to look upon; while another woman with perhaps a much better figure will trail about with a down-in-the-mouth air and a slow, doleful gait that will give one the blues and an absence of appetite for weeks to come.

The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Helen Follett Stevans

Well, I reckon it's about time, an 'the best thing you can do, for you look sort o' pinin 'an' down-in-the-mouth.

Peggy Stewart at School

` ` Why do you look so down-in-the-mouth, Selma? ''

The Conflict 1911