Idiom
enough to make the angels weep
Meaning
Something so distressing that it causes one to lose hope and faith.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The destruction of the old forest is enough to make the angels weep.”
“Seeing the abandoned animals left behind in the ruins of the city was enough to make the angels weep.”
“The sheer scale of the injustice suffered by the innocent refugees was enough to make the angels weep, leaving even the most hardened observers in despair.”
Examples
simple
“The destruction of the old forest is enough to make the angels weep.”
contextual
“Seeing the abandoned animals left behind in the ruins of the city was enough to make the angels weep.”
complex
“The sheer scale of the injustice suffered by the innocent refugees was enough to make the angels weep, leaving even the most hardened observers in despair.”
Origin
From a passage in Shakespeare, Measure for Measure...man ,/Drest in a little brief authority,/plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven/As make the angels weep.
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