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merchant of doom/gloom
UK disapproving
Definition
someone who is always saying that bad things are going to happen
With exports rising and unemployment falling, the merchants of gloom are having to revise their opinions of the economy.
(Definition of merchant of doom/gloom from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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