gloomy Gus

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gloomy Gus - someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

unwelcome person, persona non grata - a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome

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He had no time to listen to pessimistic warnings from any Gloomy Gus of a Subconscious Self.

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While sites like Baseball-Reference.com offer aficionados access to box scores, these statistical recordings of games lack the color the author infuses into his more detailed accounts, which include the unique nicknames of the period: Sea Lion Hall, Gloomy Gus Williams, Cuke Burrows.

Gerald C. Wood. Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 386 pp. Cloth, $34.95

For a change, I'd like to replace Gloomy Gus with Cheerful Charlie and point out some of the progress our country has made.