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Synonyms for crocodile tears
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of crocodile tears
- noun fake and insincere tears
- That mother's tears did not seem to me like crocodile tears.
- Extract from : « Looking Back » by Merrick Abner Richardson
- Crocodile tears though they often are, they have an effect on me which is more than peculiar.
- Extract from : « In Strange Company » by Guy Boothby
- You couldn't keep it to yourself, for all your promises and your crocodile tears!
- Extract from : « The Lookout Man » by B. M. Bower
- Come, come; don't stand there shedding your crocodile tears; you are found out, and may as well leave off shamming any more.
- Extract from : « The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 » by Eugne Sue
- But he was accustomed to shed these crocodile tears after horrors of this kind, when he had made no effort to mitigate them.
- Extract from : « The Turkish Empire, its Growth and Decay » by Lord Eversley
- The killdeer's crocodile tears are bigger and more touchingly genuine than even the quail's.
- Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
- At this Ryder shed some crocodile tears; and very soon, by her blandishments, obtained forgiveness.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 » by Various
- When I use the word crocodile I am not hinting at savage instincts or crocodile tears.
- Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany » by Georg Brandes
- "I looked as if I did not understand what was meant by these crocodile tears," said he.
- Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
- He finally gets accustomed to these everlasting murmurs, to these dying postures, these crocodile tears.
- Extract from : « The Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete » by Honore de Balzac
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