after a disastrous date like that, anyone would be down in the mouth
Recent Examples on the WebMany of our emotion terms are references to states of the body—we’re downcast, bent out of shape, head over heels, shaken up, down in the mouth—which have slowly rigidified into dead metaphor.—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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