Idiom
make baby Jesus cry
Meaning
To provoke a negative reaction due to being offensive, unpleasant, immoral, etc.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Wearing socks with sandals will make baby Jesus cry.”
“If you put pineapple on your pizza, you will make baby Jesus cry.”
“His decision to abandon the project at the final hour was enough to make baby Jesus cry.”
Examples
simple
“Wearing socks with sandals will make baby Jesus cry.”
contextual
“If you put pineapple on your pizza, you will make baby Jesus cry.”
complex
“His decision to abandon the project at the final hour was enough to make baby Jesus cry.”
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