in a funk

Ever since a certain indulged heir rode down his golden escalator, the nation’s been in a funk.

Pato O’Ward, who will start in the middle of the third row for McLaren, had the fifth-fastest lap at 225.738 mph, but he came away from practice in a funk.

And the inability to get stops put the Lakers in a funk they couldn’t escape.

Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”

“I love to laugh right now,” said Streisand, who said she’s been in a funk over the state of the planet.