slough of despond

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A dreary bog or marsh.
2. isim A state of disheartening hopelessness; pit of despair.

   “Thus the colony - for owing to its enormous area the Territory can claim to be considered something more than a settlement - was at last attracting notice, and rising from the Slough of Despond into which different causes had placed it.”