out of spirits
English edit
Prepositional phrase edit
- Feeling discouraged or melancholy.
- 1872, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:
- A party of natives in Tierra del Fuego endeavoured to explain to us that their friend, the captain of a sealing vessel, was out of spirits, by pulling down their cheeks with both hands, so as to make their faces as long as possible.