单词 | to cry one's eyes out |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry (also †weep, etc.) one's eyes out f. to cry (also †weep, etc.) one's eyes out: to weep bitterly or at length. Cf. cry v. 10b, to cry one's heart out at heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 6c(b), and to weep out one's eyes heart at weep v. 8a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > copiously to weep one's fill or bellyfula1290 to weep out one's eyes heartc1290 forweepa1375 to weep full a streeta1413 to cry (also weep, etc.) one's eyes outa1450 bawl1605 cry1705 to cry (also sob, weep, etc.) one's heart out1732 a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 1002 (MED) His eyen out he wepe. 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse i. ii. f. 2v With face and visage bloubered with teares, in suche sorte that she hath welny wept out both her eies. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 36 So blubber'd with Teares, that she may seem almost to have wept her Eyes out. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant xv. 189 He'll e'en let 'em cry their Eyes out, without deigning to take notice of 'em. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 27 I can't help it, if I would cry my Eyes out. 1808 G. Colman Blue Devils 17 Poor little heart! she'll cry her sweet pretty eyes out. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxi. 4 The poor maid—or young woman rather—standing at the door crying her eyes out. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 1 Nov. (1993) III. 63 A wooden tray holding a manuscript..which is all spattered over with drops of rain & looks as though some sad mortal had cried his pretty eyes out over it. 1964 M. Stewart This Rough Magic (1965) i. 12 I saw it at Stratford, the last performance, and cried my eyes out over the ‘this rough magic I here abjure’ bit. 2005 Aspire Apr. 73/1 I was once at a funeral, sobbing my eyes out, when some muppet approached me. < as lemmas |
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