Over the course of two years, she had fallen from her $70,000-per-year dream job to the doldrums of on-again-off-again work.
During the economic doldrums of the early 1990's, hiring began to increase in the restaurant industry about six months before job creation began taking off.
The man is relentless once he shakes off his doldrums and gets into high gear.
After a lethargic effort at Toronto, the Nets had problems shaking off the doldrums.
Not even the supreme guitarist Steve Cropper, a guest on "Rockin' and Rollin' on Christmas Day," can shake off the doldrums.
Suzana Brezinova, the club's marketing director, said some high-spending businessmen still visited Darling to shrug off economic doldrums.
Many think that if the season has any chance of shaking off the doldrums, it is with this weekend's new batch of films for the Independence Day holiday.
It didn't take long for the market to shake off its doldrums.
New York's real estate market has long since shaken off its doldrums from the economic downturn a few years ago, and it is a seller's market because there is so little inventory.
If, however, you're prepared to shake off the doldrums, wipe the sleep out of your eyes, turn off the television, tune out the talking heads, untether yourself from whatever piece of technology you're affixed to, wean yourself off the teat of the nanny state, and start flexing those unused civic muscles, then there might be hope for us all.
