I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crying/great/terrible shame
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It was a crying shame that they lost the game.
a pressing/crying need (= a very urgent need )
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There’s a crying need for more doctors and nurses.
have sb laughing/crying etc
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Within minutes he had the whole audience laughing and clapping.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
need
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
shame
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Dot had heard Mrs Parvis say that it was a crying shame , a young fit man like that.
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In the context of the world today, it seems a crying shame .
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It's a crying shame to cover up your body.
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It was a crying shame to see those grounds neglected.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be crying out for sth
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The city's in trouble and is crying out for help.
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Employers in all fields of endeavour were crying out for them, offering generous salaries along with an array of enticing perks.
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Farms and industry are crying out for labour.
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Neither parents nor politicians are crying out for radical reform of the system.
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Not that any industry was crying out for buffalo products at the time.
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Small businesses are crying out for workers, and poor foreigners plug a gap.
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The country is crying out for leadership and all Mr Smith has to offer is a talking-shop for academics and political has-beens.
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The S is crying out for them.
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The system is crying out for a particular simple change.
burst out laughing/crying/singing etc
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At that point I burst out laughing.
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Charles didn't respond and after a frozen pause, she collapsed into a chair and burst out crying.
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He did it so cleverly that you would think it was the real thing - until he burst out laughing.
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I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat.
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I said and burst out crying.
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Julie, surprised, burst out laughing.
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The whole group bursts out laughing.
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The woman and children burst out laughing again, getting up from the table and crowding round me.
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
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I had an incredible crying jag .
for crying out loud
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It's right in front of you, for crying out loud.
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A Ford sedan, the very symbol of middle-class moderation, offers electrically heated outside mirrors, for crying out loud.
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Forget it, Rory, for crying out loud forget it.
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Julian Tavarez is a middle reliever, for crying out loud.
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The long lie is over Shake yourself for crying out loud.
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When I were a lad, we used that sort of grunt in our toasters, for crying out loud.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dot had heard Mrs Parvis say that it was a crying shame, a young fit man like that.
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This final aching agony had auburn hair, grey eyes, multiple sclerosis and a sick dislike of crying babies.
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Without my exercise, I was a crying wreck.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.
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Maternity blues linked to platelet receptors TWO-THIRDS of women suffer from postnatal depression, accompanied by crying , confusion and tension.
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Nina was in the kitchen, her face red with crying , her eyes swollen.
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There are reports of links between crying and urticaria, a rash resembling nettle rash.