Carl Paladino

In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

American Politician

Keegan-Michael Key

Being a Lions fan is like being a Cubs fan: you just have to keep going. You don't have a choice. You can't give up, because one day, when it happens - and I believe it'll happen - then you can really savor it because you were there in the doldrums, and you get to be there in the victory.

American Actor

John Podhoretz

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

American Writer

Barbara Windsor

I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

English Actress

Jane Ridley

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

English Historian

Brian Lara

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

Trinidadian Cricketer

Hunter S. Thompson

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

American Journalist

Matt Bomer

I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Scottish Athlete

Phyllis McGinley

American Author

Though often used for unwanted inactivity, 'doldrums' can reflect peaceful rest or a break.

Not Always Negative

'Doldrums' can symbolize a lack of progress in various contexts, not just personal.

Metaphorical Use

Frequently used with 'fall into', 'stuck in', or 'get out of' to describe entering or leaving the state.

Common Collocations

Historically, 'doldrums' relates to sailing, describing slow, difficult journeys with no wind.

Nautical Origin

Specific to the equatorial region, the term refers to this unpredictable zone at sea.

Geographic Term

Beyond literal use, 'doldrums' can refer to any situation where progress feels halted.

Extended Meaning

Refers to more than just sadness, often implying a sense of listlessness or ennui.

Emotional State

Usually suggests a temporary period rather than a permanent feeling or condition.

Temporary Phase

Conveys a strong visual or mood, useful for storytelling and expressing complex emotions.

Descriptive Imagery

 and I'm sure many of you understand that when you're on the equator, it's supposed to be in the doldrums. We're not supposed to get the cyclones. We create them, and then we send them either north or south. But they aren't supposed to come back. But for the first time, at the beginning of this year,

My Country Will Be...

 Zealand and even though albatross is need wind they have managed to get along with the doldrums and found a way to establish a home base near the equator these are waved albatross escorting on

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 currents their busy highways here in the doldrums famous for its become sailors the ocean sweepings stretch visibly for hundreds of miles

Doldrums

Not Always Negative

Metaphorical Use

Common Collocations

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