Idiom
cry someone a river
Meaning
To weep profusely or excessively in the presence of another person.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He complains about his easy job, so I tell him to cry me a river.”
“She expects me to feel sorry for her mistakes, but I told her to cry me a river instead.”
“When he began lamenting his minor inconveniences to the group, they sarcastically suggested he cry them a river.”
Examples
simple
“He complains about his easy job, so I tell him to cry me a river.”
contextual
“She expects me to feel sorry for her mistakes, but I told her to cry me a river instead.”
complex
“When he began lamenting his minor inconveniences to the group, they sarcastically suggested he cry them a river.”
Origin
Probably from the song Cry Me a River (1953).
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