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crocodile tear

n. (context idiomatic often pluralized English) A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.

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Crocodile Tear

Crocodile tear, crocodile tears, crocodile's tear, or crocodile's tears may refer to:

  • Crocodile tears, a false or insincere display of emotion.
  • "Crocodile Tears", a 2007 song by Girls Aloud from Tangled Up
  • Crocodile Tears (novel), the eighth novel in the Alex Rider series by British author Anthony Horowitz.
  • Crocodile Tears, a 1998 film by Ann Coppel
  • Crocodile Tears, the fictional film that appears in Along Came Polly, a 2004 romantic comedy film
  • Luha ng Buwaya ("Crocodile's Tear" in translation), a Tagalog-language novel by Filipino author Amado V. Hernandez.

Usage examples of "crocodile tear".

Charlie was better dead and his death did not rate one crocodile tear.