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
"It's no good being in the mopes, you know."
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
He says she is too slow, and would give us both the mopes.
From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
