Idiom
dry eye
Meaning
An eye which is not crying, i.e. someone emotionally unmoved.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He watched the sad movie without a dry eye.”
“The story of the lost dog was so moving that there was not a dry eye in the room.”
“As the veteran recounted the harrowing details of the conflict, there was not a dry eye among the listeners in the crowded auditorium.”
Examples
simple
“He watched the sad movie without a dry eye.”
contextual
“The story of the lost dog was so moving that there was not a dry eye in the room.”
complex
“As the veteran recounted the harrowing details of the conflict, there was not a dry eye among the listeners in the crowded auditorium.”
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