crocodile tear

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crocodile tear teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: 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: 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.
crocodile tears: plural form of crocodile tear
crocodile tears: 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
crocodile tears: tears which are not sincere, hypocritical show of emotion, false tears
crocodile 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

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cro·co·dile tear

kräkıdayl ter

/ˈkräkəˌdīl ˈter/ /ˈkrɑːkəˌdaɪl ˈtɛr/

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