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crocodile tears:

Definitions:

  1. a hypocritical display of sorrow; false or insincere weeping

Examples:

  1. one less hour for debate , so those on the Tory Front Bench are shedding crocodile tears . Listening to the debates on some of the amendments this afternoon , I felt
  2. in the Church of the Holy Wisdom has not yet been completed . And whatever crocodile tears are shed over 1204 , the modern West will certainly do nothing to prevent the
  3. new gas supplies in Algeria . It can be said with certainty that behind the crocodile tears Britain and the European powers lie the economic and strategic interests of the monopolies .
  4. to a ‘ mafia ' . The tears now being shed for Kosovar refugees are crocodile tears for sure . NATO has also discovered a sudden concern for Serbs forced to fight
  5. will continue to be built on its next door site . The company has shed crocodile tears regarding workers and their families . The initial cost in workers ' jobs is estimated

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