the mopes
Example Sentences
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Quick, someone wake up the mopes in Halas Hall and relay this information.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 12, 2012
The American movie industry, in the mopes for most of last year, rebounded vibrantly in the first three months of 2012.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2012
Fanning’s precocious Lily is just the tonic to cure Dylan of the mopes; Johansson’s Kelly, a senior staff member, is all-American-gorgeous and conveniently if improbably unattached.
From Time ● Dec. 22, 2011
Come on, Nell, don't let us sit here and get the mopes, and think of our consciences.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"It's no good being in the mopes, you know."
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
