Slough of Despond

Slough of Despond
a place in The Pilgrim’s Progress. It is a slough (= an area of soft, wet ground) that is full of fears and doubts. It is sometimes used to refer to the mental condition of a person with many doubts and fears:

While he was in this slough of despond his agent rang, and suddenly everything seemed all right.

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  • slough of despond — If someone is very depressed or in despair, they re in a slough of despond …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • Slough of Despond — The Slough of Despond is a deep bog in John Bunyan s allegory The Pilgrim s Progress , into which the character Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt. It is the low ground where the scum and filth of a guilty… …   Wikipedia

  • slough of despond — Etymology: from the Slough of Despond, deep bog into which Christian falls on the way from the City of Destruction and from which Help saves him in the allegory Pilgrim s Progress (1678) by John Bunyan Date: 1776 a state of extreme depression …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Slough of Despond — noun A state of despondency. ,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) …   Wiktionary

  • slough of despond —    If someone is very depressed or in despair, they re in a slough of despond.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • Slough of despond —   If someone is very depressed or in despair, they re in a slough of despond …   Dictionary of English idioms

  • Slough of Despond — Slough of Des|pond, the literary a situation in which you are very unhappy and there seems to be no hope that things will improve. The expression comes from the name of a place in the book ThePilgrim s Progress by John Bunyan …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • SLOUGH OF DESPOND —    a deep bog in the Pilgrim s Progress, into which Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of their guilt …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • slough of despond — deep depression …   English contemporary dictionary

  • slough of despond — noun (formal) extreme depression • Usage Domain: ↑formality • Hypernyms: ↑depression …   Useful english dictionary

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