A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. Phyllis McGinley
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again. Alan Hansen
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother. Barbara Windsor
Labour is in the doldrums and we have to ask ourselves why. Why, day after day during the campaign, we failed to get a hearing. Why the voters aren't getting the alternative vision of a fairer, stronger, more just Britain that we should be offering. Jo Cox
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy. Robert Heilbroner
As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea. John Podhoretz