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.
