crocodile tears betydelse and definition

Exempel på crocodile tears

• In crying crocodile tears, we know that this was a noisy, showy action.

• But there is this to be said at once, particularly about the crocodile tears in some newspapers.

• Yet if we examine the charges and wade through the crocodile tears to reach the solid facts, what do we find?

• I have seen crocodile tears being shed, and a bit of a song and dance going on, rather like in a university debating society.

• It is not enough for us to weep crocodile tears over this affair.

• You have been shedding crocodile tears on behalf of the working men.

• There is no place for crocodile tears, sympathy without funding or condemnation without action.

• I have never been one to shed crocodile tears over the loss of our shipbuilding industry.