B. Sadness

B. Idioms for sadness

Dear Louis, 

Hope all goes well with you. Unfortunately, everyone here 

is out of sorts. Will is down in the dumps because he

doesn’t like his teacher this year. I have told him that it’s

not the end of the world. And that he’d better just grin

and bear it, but I think he likes being a misery gut and

so he complains about her every night.  Pat is also

suffering from sour grapes because I got the role in the

school play that she wanted. This puts a damper on 

every meal, so I am really looking forward to staying with

you at the weekend.

Love,

Karen. 

1.Slightly unhappy or slightly ill.

2.Unhappy (informal.)

3.What has happened won’t cause any serious

 problems.

4.Accept the situation you don’t like because you

 can’t change it.

5.Someone who complains all the time and is never

 happy (very formal.)

6.Being jealous about something you can’t have.

7.Stop an occasion from being enjoyable ( sometimes

 dampener is use instead of

 damper)