单词 | not a dry eye |
释义 | > as lemmasnot a dry eye (in the house) 1. colloquial. not a dry eye (in the house) and variants: no one present who is not crying or who is left unmoved. Cf. dry adj. 1a and house n.1 4c. ΚΠ ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1893) 243 Among whome was not oon drie eye. 1650 S. Sheppard Amandus & Sophronia iii. i. 94 The people thronging in heapes to see her, yet amongst that multitude, not a dry eye. 1716 J. Addison Drummer v. 48 There was not a dry Eye in the Parish at the News of his Death. 1767 W. Dodd Poems 35 (note) The Wranglers must no more joyously ravish the balmy blessings from the coy and struggling fair: scarce a dry eye was seen on the day when the wranglers were last expected. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. iv. 48 If tears could have washed it out, it had not been there now; for there was not a dry eye in the house . View more context for this quotation 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. x. 136 Every looker-on's inside shook with the blows of the great drum to his deepest vitals, and there was not a dry eye throughout the town among the public-house people and the nameless women! 1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes xlii. 84 There'll be many a dry eye at his funeral. 1967 Listener 21 Sept. 359/2 Hardly a dry eye with the older ones amongst us. And then again a little pause and the British Army marched by in drill order. 2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 23 Jan. When you hear some of the songs about the mining disasters there isn't a dry eye in the house. < as lemmas |
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