Idiom
get misty
Meaning
To get tears in someone's eyes; to feel sentimental.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I always get misty when I watch sad movies.”
“She started to get misty as she looked through the old photos from her childhood home.”
“The elderly man could not help but get misty while listening to the song that played at his wedding decades ago.”
Examples
simple
“I always get misty when I watch sad movies.”
contextual
“She started to get misty as she looked through the old photos from her childhood home.”
complex
“The elderly man could not help but get misty while listening to the song that played at his wedding decades ago.”
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