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Crocodile Tears fake tears; false grief

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I begged and cried to go to the party, but Dad said I was crying crocodile tears. Way back in ancient Rome (about a.d. 300), people were using this expression. About 1,000 years later, people enjoyed listening to a popular folktale about how crocodiles make loud weeping sounds to trap innocent prey who come close to see what all the wailing is about. The crocodiles supposedly weep fake tears even as they eat their victims. Later, British writers such as Shakespeare, Bacon, and Tennyson used "crocodile tears" to suggest insincere sympathy and pretended sorrow.

Idiom	Crocodile Tears
Example	I begged and cried to go to the party, but Dad said I was crying crocodile tears.
Meaning	fake tears; false grief
Origin	Way back in ancient Rome (about a.d. 300), people were using this expression. About 1,000 years later, people enjoyed listening to a popular folktale about how crocodiles make loud weeping sounds to trap innocent prey who come close to see what all the wailing is about. The crocodiles supposedly weep fake tears even as they eat their victims. Later, British writers such as Shakespeare, Bacon, and Tennyson used "crocodile tears" to suggest insincere sympathy and pretended sorrow.

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