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cry crocodile tears
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cry crocodile tears
Become extremely emotional, heavily teared, moved.
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crocodile tears
A display of tears that is forced or false.
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crocodile tears
Plural form of crocodile tear.
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crocodile tear
A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
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vale of tears
A symbolic "valley of tears"; meaning the world and the sorrows felt through life. Similar to the Old Testament Psalm 23's reference to the "valley of the shadow of death", the phrase implies that sadness is part of the physical world (i.e. part of human experience).
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blood, sweat and tears
A person's determination and hard work.
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burst into tears
to suddenly start weeping
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reduce someone to tears
To cause to cry
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two tears in a bucket
used to express acceptance of misfortune
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cry out
To shout in a loud voice, due to pain, or fear, or unhappiness.
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cry out against
To complain strongly, usually as a group.
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cry out for
To say that a situation needs a thing, or a solution urgently.
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cry off
To cancel something that one has previously arranged with someone.
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cry like a little girl
To bawl unabashedly and pitifully.
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battle cry
By extension, a strong motto or purpose statement, especially in regards to winning a goal in sports, games or work.
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battle cry
Something the troops yell out when going to war or battle.
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cry all the way to the bank
To be happy due to the receipt of money, although expressing sorrow about the cause of such receipt.
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cry down
to cry until it is tired.
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cry down
To decry
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cry for help
Acting out as a means of displaying a subconscious desire for attention or help.
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cry for help
In her second year at the school Alexis stopped doing her homework and would often scribble on walls. Her teachers wondered whether this was a cry for help, or if she was simply misbehaving.
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cry foul
To protest about something which appears to be unjust.
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cry in one's beer
To feel sorry for oneself; to feel sadness or regret, especially in combination with self-pity.
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cry like a baby
(of an adult or older child) To bawl unabashedly and pitifully.
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cry me a river
An admonishment, reminder, chiding, demand or ejaculation addressed to an individual whom evinces sadness. seemingly suffers disappointment, disillusionment, distress, and renders a general resentment toward the people in this world with a constant flow of tears.
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cry one's eyes out
To moan.
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cry one's eyes out
To weep for an elongated time, or in an excessive manner.
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cry over spilled milk
Become needlessly upset over trivial reverses or losses, express resentment when others gain incidental items or are chosen instead of your being favored.
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cry someone a river
To try to obtain the sympathy of another person by complaining or sniveling.
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cry someone a river
To weep profusely or excessively in the presence of another person.
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cry the blues
To complain, especially in order to obtain sympathy for one's own purportedly sad situation.
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cry the blues
To sing in the style of blues music.
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cry uncle
To beg for mercy; to give up; to ask to stop (something painful or unbearable).
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cry up
To extol, praise.
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cry wolf
To raise a false alarm; to constantly warn others about an imagined threat, thereby failing to get assistance when a real threat appears.
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don't cry over spilled milk
Alternative spelling of don't cry over spilt milk.
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don't cry over spilt milk
It is no use worrying about unfortunate events which have already happened and which cannot be changed.
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far cry
Something very dissimilar or different.
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kiss and cry
The publicly viewable enclosure in which figure skaters sit immediately after a performance, while they await and receive the judging results.
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make baby Jesus cry
To provoke a negative reaction due to being offensive, unpleasant, immoral, etc.
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more cry than wool
Asserted but not grounded in reality.
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shoulder to cry on
Someone offering emotional support to another in distress.
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all aboard
A cry to passengers to board a train or boat that is soon to depart.
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attaboy
A cry of "attaboy"; an accolade.
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blow me down
A cry of surprise
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crack-up
One can 'crack-up' emotionally with laughter or tears as a result of an observation, a joke, a story, a scene, a sequence in a movie, opera, stage play or animal, baby or children;s antics:
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go for it
A cry of encouragement.
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put him in to get him out
An election poster catchphrase, and rallying cry, for imprisoned Republicans to be elected to parliament.
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shed a tear
To have a tear released, to cry (due to sadness)
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sing out
To cry out in pain.
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