crocodile tears

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الإنجليزية - التركية
sahte üzüntü
sahte gözyaşları
(deyim) yapmacık üzüntü
timsah gözyaşları
(deyim) sahte göz yaşları
shed crocodile tears
sahte gözyaşı dökmek
shed crocodile tears
timsah gözyaşları dökmek
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
A display of tears that is forced or false

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.

plural form of crocodile tear
If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere. The sight of George shedding crocodile tears made me sick. An insincere display of grief; false tears
tears which are not sincere, hypocritical show of emotion, false tears
a hypocritical display of sorrow; false or insincere weeping; "the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma"; "politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed
crocodile tear
A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion

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.

crocodile tears
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