be down in the mouth

Example Sentences

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But don't you be down in the mouth about this scrape.

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

Keep your pecker up, old feller!" said Mr. Bouncer, in an encouraging tone, as they drove into Oxford, "and don't be down in the mouth about a dirty trick like this.

From Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green by Bede, Cuthbert

He’d be down in the mouth if he were!—the fool!

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines

"Why, yes," says he, and now it was his turn to be down in the mouth.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

But a man, when he undertakes to advise another, should not be down in the mouth himself.

From The Landleaguers by Trollope, Anthony