Slough of Despond
WordNet
noun
(1) (formal) extreme depression
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Etymology
From the name of a bog in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
Noun
Slough of Despond
- A state of despondency.
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- 2003, Why could Johnson not drag himself out of this slough of despond? — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)
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