doom and gloom
doom and gloom
a general feeling of pessimism or despondency
This expression, sometimes found as gloom and doom, was particularly pertinent to fears about a nuclear holocaust during the cold war period of the 1950s and 1960s. It became a catchphrase in the 1968 film Finian's Rainbow.
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