| 单词 | crocodile tears |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrocodile tears crocodile tears n. Often with allusion to the fabled weeping of the crocodile (see 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > in sorrow crocodile tears1563 1563 E. Grindal in J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal (1710) i. vii. 78 I begin to fear, lest his humility..be a counterfeit humility, and his tears crocodile tears. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii. s.v. Thence came the Prouerb, he shed Crocodile teares, viz. fayned teares. 1863 G. A. Sala Capt. Dangerous xvii Saying with crocodile tears, that he was not the first who had an undutiful son. < as lemmas |
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