be down in the mouth

Example Sentences

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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

I don't see that there's much to be down in the mouth about.'

From Peterkin by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

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)

"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)

Don’t let us be down in the mouth till we’re sure there is a danger.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne