crocodile tears
Example Sentences
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"We won't wait for the accident which is about to happen to see everyone shed crocodile tears ... safety should be on the front line," wrote the rail workers' union.
From Reuters ● Mar. 6, 2023
Some of us suspected this was a gush of crocodile tears.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021
"Val" certainly engenders sympathy, but at times it feels like crocodile tears.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2021
I might have done things differently if I had, but these crocodile tears are something else.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2021
This is the age of pulling literature, of crocodile tears, of simulated tenderness, of counterfeit sympathy, of cry and clamor and plaint and protest.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
