Slough of Despond

English

Etymology

From the name of a bog in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

Noun

Slough of Despond

1. 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)