Found 2 items, similar to down in the mouth.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: down in the mouth down in the mouth adj : low in spirits; “lonely and blue in a strange city”; “depressed by the loss of his job”; “a dispirited and resigned expression on her face”; “downcast after his defeat”; “feeling discouraged and downhearted” [syn: blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Down in the mouth Mouth \Mouth\ (mouth), n.; pl. Mouths (mou[th]z). [OE. mouth, mu[thorn], AS. m[=u][eth]; akin to D. mond, OS. m[=u][eth], G. mund, Icel. mu[eth]r, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. mund, Goth. mun[thorn]s, and possibly L. mentum chin; or cf. D. muil mouth, muzzle, G. maul, OHG. m[=u]la, Icel. m[=u]li, and Skr. mukha mouth.] 1. The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: (a) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. (b) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. (c) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. (d) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. (e) The entrance into a harbor. [1913 Webster] 3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. [1913 Webster] 4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. [1913 Webster] Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 6. Speech; language; testimony. [1913 Webster] That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. --Matt. xviii. 16. [1913 Webster] 7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow. [1913 Webster] Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Down at the mouth or Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.] Mouth friend, one who professes friendship insincerely. --Shak. Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth. Mouth honor, honor given in words, but not felt. --Shak. Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound. To put one's foot in one's mouth, to say something which causes one embarrassment. To run off at the mouth, to speak excessively. To talk out of both sides of one's mouth, to say things which are contradictory. [1913 Webster +PJC] The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. --Ps. lxiii. 11. [1913 Webster] Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11. [1913 Webster] Down \Down\, a. 1. Downcast; as, a down look. [R.] [1913 Webster] 2. Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 3. Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway. [1913 Webster] Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc. Down in the mouth, Down at the mouth chopfallen; dejected. [1913 Webster]