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* Catalan: {{t|ca|llàgrimes de cocodril|f-p}} |
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*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|鱷魚的眼淚}}, {{t+|cmn|鳄鱼的眼泪|tr=èyú de yǎnlèi}} |
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* Arabic: {{t|ar|دُمُوع اَلتَّمَاسِيح|m-p}} |
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* Armenian: {{t|hy|կոկորդիլոսի արցունքներ}} |
* Armenian: {{t|hy|կոկորդիլոսի արցունքներ}} |
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* Catalan: {{t|ca|llàgrimes de cocodril|f-p}} |
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*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|貓哭耗子假慈悲}}, {{t|cmn|猫哭耗子假慈悲|tr=māo kū hàozi jiǎ cíbēi}}, {{t+|cmn|貓哭耗子}}, {{t+|cmn|猫哭耗子|tr=māo kū hàozi}}, {{t+|cmn|假慈悲}}, {{t+|cmn|假慈悲|tr=jiǎ cíbēi}}, {{t+|cmn|鱷魚的眼淚}}, {{t+|cmn|鳄鱼的眼泪|tr=èyú de yǎnlèi}} |
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|貓哭耗子假慈悲}}, {{t|cmn|猫哭耗子假慈悲|tr=māo kū hàozi jiǎ cíbēi}}, {{t+|cmn|貓哭耗子}}, {{t+|cmn|猫哭耗子|tr=māo kū hàozi}}, {{t+|cmn|假慈悲}}, {{t+|cmn|假慈悲|tr=jiǎ cíbēi}}, {{t+|cmn|鱷魚的眼淚}}, {{t+|cmn|鳄鱼的眼泪|tr=èyú de yǎnlèi}} |
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Revision as of 12:39, 28 March 2019
Englisch
Etymology
From the ancient belief that crocodiles shed tears while consuming their prey.
Pronunciation
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Nomen
crocodile tear (plural crocodile tears)
- (idiomatic) A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.
- 1877, Charles Reade, chapter 2, in The Woman Hater:
- At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was she wood—indeed, she was not old enough for that—so this crocodile tear won her for the time being.
- (idiomatic, in the plural) A display of tears that is forced oder false.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 19, in Can You Forgive Her?:
- And in all her letters since, she had spoken of her aunt as a silly, vain, worldly woman, weeping crocodile tears, for an old husband whose death had released her from the tedium of his company.
Translations
tear shed falsely
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display of tears that is forced or false
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