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    doldrums


    1. The boat is in the doldrums


    2. Still in the doldrums, Dave looks through the food supplies


    3. Something that wakes us up out of the doldrums


    4. somewhere in the doldrums, where,


    5. ’ I replied, and he sighs, ‘Now don’t you start getting maudlin too! One of us in the doldrums is enough!’


    6. slipped into the doldrums in the 1920’s


    7. Doldrums: sea areas straddling the equator consisting of calm water and light breezes


    8. The job was for only three weeks, and since I had just applied for a seafarer’s passport which would take about a month to materialise, I could easily spare the time, what with my writing career stuck in the doldrums and my Author’s Club dead in the water


    9. doldrums of the Great Depression, when


    10. man out of the doldrums and placed him on the road to Health, Wealth and

    11. lift themselves out of their doldrums and will respond to you positively


    12. Moreover as ‘Rajan Builders’ was in doldrums by then; won’t a dull child pull my stock further down; worse still, what if she were to suspect that I let it sink out of jealousy because it was Rajan’s venture; but then was it not my obsession with her mind, body and soul that made me forget about my own self; well, of what avail was my love for her if it were to lead her into a rough weather? Even if our child was to be better than her lost one, won’t that still leave it poor and deprived; why blame her if were she to wish that Rajan was alive; but what a calamity it would be for both of us then


    13. doldrums when an important job was off ered to them


    14. Now NASA is in the doldrums


    15. Bonamy would have said that this was the sort of thing that made him uneasy--when Jacob got into the doldrums, looked like a Margate fisherman out of a job, or a British Admiral


    16. Thomas wanted to stand up and cheer, sure that Alby would finally snap out of his doldrums


    17. However, as a matter of fact though, the preposterous surmise about him being in some description of a doldrums or other or mesmerised which was entirely due to a misconception of the shallowest character, was not the case at all


    18. Like the ancient mariner, Louie and Phil had found the doldrums, the eerie pause of wind and water that lingers around the equator


    19. In general this is to dramatize what really happens – in practice it is far more common for the share you own neither to burst through the roof nor crash through the cellar but to pootle along in the doldrums for months or even years, producing little movement in the price


    20. Marie is still on my mind when the phone shatters the doldrums

    21. We are of course going to continue, if the last 4 months has told us anything it is that grail has this amazing ability to bounce back from the doldrums and surprise us in just a few days


    22. ” These particular comments from her are interesting because they call to mind what her grandmother, Della, and mother, Gladys, used to call “the doldrums


    23. This is especially true during the doldrums, between 11:30 a


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    Synonyms for "doldrums"

    doldrums stagnancy stagnation

    "doldrums" definitions

    a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)


    a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific