OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8786

crocodile tear

/ˈkɹɒ.kə.daɪl ˌtɪə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lágrimas de cocodrilo
A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was sh…
lágrimas de cocodrilo
A display of tears that is forced or false.
And in all her letters since, she had spoken of her aunt as a silly, vain, worldly woman, weeping crocodile tears, for an old husband whose death had released her from the tedium o…
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