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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.Not hopeful
(Definition of merchant of doom/gloom from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)