Doldrums (The)

The name given to that region of the ocean near the equator noted for calms, squalls, and baffling winds, between the N.E. and S.E. tradewinds.

“But from the bluff-head, where I watched to-day,

I saw her in the doldrums.”

Byron: The Island, canto ii. stanza 21.

In the doldrums. In the dumps.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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