I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cry/howl/bellow etc of rage
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She remembered his cries of rage as he was taken away.
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.
a squeal/gasp/cry etc of delight
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The child gave a squeal of delight.
battle cry
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‘Socialism Now!’ was their battle cry.
cry with rage
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I was crying with rage and frustration.
cry yourself to sleep (= cry until you fall asleep )
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I used to cry myself to sleep every night.
despairing cry/look/sigh etc
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She gave me a last despairing look.
had a good cry
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She sat down and had a good cry .
have sb laughing/crying etc
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Within minutes he had the whole audience laughing and clapping.
hue and cry
laugh till you cry/laugh till the tears run down your face
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He leaned back in his chair and laughed till the tears ran down his face.
laugh/groan/cry etc aloud
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The pain made him cry aloud.
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She could have laughed aloud.
let out a scream/cry/roar etc
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He let out a cry of disbelief.
plaintive cry/voice/sound etc
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the plaintive cry of the seagull
rallying cry
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‘Land and Liberty’ was the rallying cry of revolutionary Mexico.
scream/cry for mercy
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He screamed for mercy, shouting 'don't shoot!'.
shouts/cries of joy
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They greeted each other with cries of joy.
war cry
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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She was beginning to cry again .
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It made her start crying again .
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I was worried at first, when Irene started crying again before we had even taken our seats.
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I looked out the window at the thickly falling snow and began crying again .
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I didn't mean to make you cry again .
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Her eyes stung, as if she might cry again .
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I cried on Monday night and cried again Tuesday and yesterday.
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She began to cry again , and went on crying and crying.
aloud
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This was very painful, and made me cry aloud .
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We were near the top when a man on the left cried aloud .
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The situation cries aloud for strong, even dramatic, and also attention-winning, arguments.
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She cried aloud in joyous elation, her body still on fire, holding on to the magical moment as long as she could.
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She heard herself cry aloud , as if she had left her body, expelled by the spasm which shook it.
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He caught Sally-Anne's wrist in his hand with such strength that she cried aloud .
out
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Psychic phenomena seemed to cry out for, and lend themselves to, scientific investigation.
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He held his stomach and cried out in pain.
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In these early weeks of her dying, Sycorax slept, and in her sleep, cried out .
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Willing my heart to beat normally, I defy the urge to turn back or freeze or cry out .
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She, too, had needs that cried out to be met, but there was no way of meeting them.
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For crying out loud, how many shows about recovering your favorite footstool can a normal person sit through?
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Yet here is a dark continent on our own doorstep, crying out for missionary endeavour.
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People cried out , called, moaned, and wept.
■ NOUN
baby
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Several babies cried , though Jane slept well.
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I could beat any newborn baby in the world crying .
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At last he let the baby cry .
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Watch the baby while it cries .
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The baby started in to cry .
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Remember how Matt had to learn to hold his babies tight when they cried and had to overcome the boredom he felt?
child
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Sometimes children cry in poetry sessions, not to mention Beth and Lucy.
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The children are crying their eyes out.
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Three children crying in pushchairs were smacked.
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The little children were crying constantly, and the older ones were sullen and withdrawn.
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As parents we shared our hopes and fears for our children and laughed and cried together.
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And if the child started to cry in the meeting, the parents were sent home.
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Richter in one of his analects wrote of a child who cried because the sun bad burned up the dew drops.
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She was speaking quietly, and there were screams in the background, along with the unmistakable sound of children crying .
girl
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The girl who used to cry at criticism was now fireproof.
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A little girl may cry for hours and scream angrily whenever her parents try to play with her.
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Most of the new girls cried a great deal.
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A few girls began to cry .
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After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.
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But the girls would cry out: No, no, not true!
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The small girl was crying , looking for her lost kittens.
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When a girl cried , he held her up so she could blow out a candle.
heart
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After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.
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March 7: I cried my heart out last night after seeing the movie High Tide.
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My body was crying but my heart was empty.
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She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.
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Anyway, then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out.
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For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico - I was crying.
help
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Without adequate built-in safeguards, there will be other Susan Allens who will pull the trigger before they cry for help .
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The women began to cry when help arrived.
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Opening his mouth to cry for help , he -!
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The former cried out for help .
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The voice she was hearing was surely crying out for help .
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It turned out that the radio was keyed continuously, and the only voice was a single trooper crying for help .
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If anyone had been crying for help , the firemen must have responded by now.
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She cried for help and the pair ran out of the shop.
milk
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It is now too late to cry over spilt milk .
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It was disappointing, to say the least, but there's no point crying over spilt milk .
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No use crying over milk that had been spilt long before Minnie's own time in this house.
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Nora Simpson didn't believe in crying over spilt milk .
night
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Then he had cried one night following a market day in Hexham, for there he had seen two men fighting.
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Elvira cries day and night over her misfortune.
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It can't be right to cry through the night .
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She would scream if anyone came near her left arm, and she cried at night , begging for painkillers.
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Now the parents are crying in the night and no one can soothe us.
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These are the women who cry alone at night .
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I cry from fear the night before my first exam.
pain
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He cried out in pain and stumbled back against the wall.
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Weary was crying because of horrible pains in his feet.
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Sonny began to cry from pain and fear.
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Consequently, it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain .
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He held his stomach and cried out in pain .
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He increased the pressure on her wrist causing her to cry out in pain and to drop the glass.
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The boat seemed to be crying out in pain , like an arthritic suddenly called upon to use weak muscles.
shoulder
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She needed a real shoulder to cry on.
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To offer another shoulder to cry on.
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The researcher could share enthusiasms, be a shoulder to cry on and help brainstorm alternatives.
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In past years, Diana knew that Earl Spencer would be a shoulder to cry on and a loving counsellor.
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She did not seem to realize what she had done, and laid her head on his shoulder , crying with happiness.
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When Sam flopped as she hosted the 1989 Brit pop awards Pat was her shoulder to cry on.
tear
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He wanted to cry , but the tears froze on his face.
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I cried till the tears all run down in my ears.
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I remember crying sentimental tears a few years later in 1987 when I watched on television Neil Kinnock's party political broadcast.
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When my sister was upset, she would cry and great piteous tears would roll from her eyes.
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Sarah tried to cry and no tears would come.
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Yoshimoto, however, is a legitimate storyteller, and avoids the overwrought sentiment that forces a reader to cry unwilling tears .
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That night, alone in the room with the coffins, Oliver cried bitter, lonely tears .
voice
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Then voices would cry in the falling sigh of wind around its gables.
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A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in, but which was important.
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Deep inside, a high, wailing voice stopped crying and fell back into a deep sleep.
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Looking down at the top of Joe's balding pate, Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried .
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One of the few voices crying in the wilderness was that of Farringdon member Gordon Wilson.
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Hundreds of voices were crying out their wares.
woman
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There may be feelings of anger against the person who caused a woman to cry .
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The women began to cry when help arrived.
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It was rather nice to have a woman crying over him.
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It was so realistic a ceremony that several of the women cried .
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An explosion of thunder resounded round the silent street and one of the women cried out in fear.
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A few black women were crying .
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The people were afraid of these wild cats, and the women cried out.
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The woman stopped crying , although her shoulders continued to heave, and her cheeks were still wet with tears.
■ VERB
begin
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The witness began to cry , and said they had a quilt and other little things.
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Sonny began to cry from pain and fear.
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Then she was trembling, her shoulders shaking as she began to cry .
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He slammed his clenched fist into the desk, and began to cry .
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The women began to cry when help arrived.
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Then she began to cry whenever she saw him.
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An older woman in the rear of the room began to cry .
hear
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I think I had not heard him cry for six years.
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I heard some one crying and I went in.
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Hang about, I hear you cry , doubting Toms that you are.
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Walker heard them crying during the emotional scenes and guffawing through happy ones.
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In Belgrade cafés, streets and houses, you can hear constant war cries invitations to killing and to hatred.
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We heard her crying in the bathroom.
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I wake to hear him crying .
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Half way up the beach I heard Janir crying .
laugh
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The lead factory on the outskirts of town is such a wreck that you don't know whether to laugh or cry .
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I wanted to make art that makes them laugh , cry or think.
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He didn't know whether to laugh or cry .
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He laughed to near crying over unimaginable details.
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Some in the team began to laugh until they cried .
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He laughed and cried at the same time and threw his arms around the man he had loved.
start
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Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before.
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My mom started crying and everything.
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I didn't know what to do so I started to cry .
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He started wailing and crying and pulling at the corpses and had to be dragged away.
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As he was stirring it he heard Christopher cough and start to cry .
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I took one look at her and started to cry .
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Proteus started to cry and Kara disentangled him from his makeshift pouch.
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He stopped shredding and started crying .
stop
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Dean Morris's family say he has hardly stopped crying since the body of his cat Buffy, two, was found.
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I stopped crying and started to laugh.
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Della stopped crying and she washed her face.
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Carol told Petey this once to help him stop crying so she could take a look.
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He stopped crying when they arrived at the house.
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He said Eurydice stayed in her room most of the time, but now she gave orders and she had stopped crying .
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Oh, if only she could stop crying ... Upstairs a door slammed.
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But I could not stop crying .
want
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She bit her lip, wanting to cry , but too proud.
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Beautiful arms; he looked at them and wanted to cry .
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My body ached, I was ready to drop, I wanted to cry .
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I wanted to cry , weep and beg the Almighty for mercy.
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And they were songs that filled you with sadness, that made you want to cry until your throat swelled with salt.
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He wanted to cry , but the tears froze on his face.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shoulder to cry on
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If you ever need a shoulder to cry on, just call me.
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Remember, I'm always here if you need a shoulder to cry on.
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In past years, Diana knew that Earl Spencer would be a shoulder to cry on and a loving counsellor.
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The researcher could share enthusiasms, be a shoulder to cry on and help brainstorm alternatives.
be a far cry from sth
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Europe was a far cry from what we'd been led to expect.
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Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.
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But resistance is a far cry from immunity.
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It was a far cry from the modern chalet party.
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The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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The cinder-block surroundings, while not luxurious, are a far cry from the stripped-down wards of 1958 that greeted early volunteers.
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The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.
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The plateau was a far cry from the workaday cottages by the harbour.
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The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique, and still has stock dating back for generations.
be in full cry
cry on sb's shoulder
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At least she hadn't cried on his shoulder again.
cry/sing etc your heart out
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After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.
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Anyway, then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out.
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For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico - I was crying.
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March 7: I cried my heart out last night after seeing the movie High Tide.
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She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.
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We would march along in step, doing eighty-eight paces to the minute, singing our hearts out.
crying need for sth
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
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I had an incredible crying jag .
it's a crying shame
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It would be a crying shame if high ticket prices kept people away from baseball games.
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It's a crying shame to cover up your body.
laugh/cry hard
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Suddenly, he came inside crying hard .
strangled cry/gasp/voice etc
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After a few thrusting minutes Edward gave a strangled cry that seemed to come from deep in his throat and jerked out of her.
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But Gary in his slow strangled voice spoke a kind of poetry as he told me about his previous life.
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Gilbert uttered a strangled cry and leapt to his feet with shadow reflections of crawling rain on his spectrally white face.
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He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions.
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Lorrimer gave a strangled cry and lunged out.
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Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Come and see what I've found!" Kurt cried.
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"I can't move," Lesley cried. "I think I've broken my leg."
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"What are we going to do?" she cried.
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At night I'd cry myself to sleep, thinking about you.
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Don't cry , I didn't mean to upset you.
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I could hear the baby crying in the next room.
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I sat alone in my room and cried and cried.
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Jenny won't tell me what she's crying about.
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Kim's eyes were red and she looked as though she'd been crying.
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She cried with joy when she heard that the children were safe.
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The baby was crying, so I went in to check on him.
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The film was so sad, it made me cry .
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The poor kid's so miserable, he's upstairs crying his eyes out.
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The seagulls on the cliffs were crying loudly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During one closing argument that summer, Gwinn broke down and cried.
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Emmie had cried until her eyes were hot and her throat dry and aching.
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If we cry when we are sad, the physiological response is tears from the eyes and nose.
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In these early weeks of her dying, Sycorax slept, and in her sleep, cried out.
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Take on the world and never cry craven, he'd said.
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The growers who are crying wolf today about the lack of water will post their annual profits in a few months.
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When she opened her eyes and saw that she had again missed the tray, she cried.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.
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She uttered a great cry which reached up to the gods.
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There was a gasp and a great cry from the watching people.
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The whole earth uttered a great cry .
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When it arrived, they uttered a great cry of welcome.
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The baby suddenly revealed its head and thrust its way out of her, so that she gave a great agonised cry .
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He threw up one arm and gave a great cry as the gun went off.
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With a great cry the knights followed him.
little
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She gives a brief, cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes, and sinks her teeth into my shoulder.
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Finally he made a noise, and Maritza turned around, uttered a little cry of thanks, and took the tissue.
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We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre.
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Call it a little cry of freedom from a much abused soul.
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People met and greeted each other with little cries of welcome.
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Babies that sleep little and cry frequently often go on to become hyperkinetic.
loud
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Very vocal, with a loud laughing cry .
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Hers was a loud , piercing cry that sounded as if she was in pain.
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The creature gave a loud cry of pain, and we knew we had hit it.
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The peasants, having just come out to the fields, turn back, uttering loud cries .
plaintive
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Legend has it that the bridge got its name from the plaintive cries of the prisoners as they were escorted across it.
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There he left them, knowing that they were safe, despite their plaintive cries .
rallying
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This rhetoric offers both a posthoc justification for the changes, and a rallying cry for implementation.
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Self-denial and self-help, however, would make a poor rallying cry for the hustings.
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Newspapers sometimes appeared to be providing the rallying cry for future demonstration.
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Public order is an election rallying cry and fear of crime can influence practice as well as policy.
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They both hated orthodoxies and bandwagons, catch-phrases and rallying cries .
sharp
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No more laughter, but over the clash of steel a sharp cry .
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Suddenly Dad uttered a sharp cry and staggered backwards, slumping against the wall.
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Then she could not restrain herself, pounced with a sharp cry on a smear under the handle of the colander.
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Madeleine interrupted Thérèse with a sharp cry .
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Eventually the dominant male gives a sharp cry and the subordinate flies off.
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She fell with a sharp cry of surprise, and the ladder overbalanced on top of her.
small
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The odour of must and the small waking cry of a child seep into the air.
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He set it before her and they both opened these gifts with a thunderstorm of paper and appropriate small cries of thanks.
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She moved around the font into the chapel and at once gave a small cry of triumph.
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And when speech gave way to the rhythmic breathing and small cries or even angry groans that I never tired of overhearing?
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Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
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With a small cry of anguish she took one last look at him and turned and fled.
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She entered the water with a small cry at its chill.
■ NOUN
battle
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His battle cry was echoed by Baal and Set, as they hurtled forward in his wake.
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We are springing to the call of our brothers gone before, Shouting the battle cry of Freedom.
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She heard his cry , perhaps the battle cry of his northern forefathers when they prepared to attack.
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And we bear the glorious stars for the Union and the right, Shouting the battle cry of Freedom!
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The new battle cry was: Year-Round Casual.
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Their battle cry at the moment is: To know synchronized swimming is to love synchronized swimming.
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Her parting gesture, almost a battle cry .
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They let off a battle cry .
war
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Keep Britain White was the war cry .
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When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
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He was there when the killers streamed down from the surrounding hills, chanting war cries .
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In each case the shout is far more than simply a war cry .
■ VERB
give
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Beneath her the river snaked silver amongst the rushes and meadowsweet and a buzzard circling on high gave its own mournful cry .
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Loi gave a cry and pointed.
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But when he uncovered the picture, he gave a cry of pain.
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When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
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He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry and ran upstairs and into the study.
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It broke over Rex who gave a cry of satisfaction.
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She gave a stifled cry of disappointment.
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They give point to the cries of the preachers for repentance, conversion, and return to the old religion.
greet
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As Mr Clarke was interviewed, his answers were greeted with cries of outrage.
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People met and greeted each other with little cries of welcome.
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Nothing but silence greeted my cries .
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His statement was greeted with cries of mock astonishment and indignation by Tory back-benchers.
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The not-guilty verdicts were greeted with cries of delight and tears from some defendants and applause from the gallery.
hear
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The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.
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He felt, too, that he was a baby and could hear himself cry like a child.
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At a quarter past twelve he was standing on the landing with Fred when he heard the first cry of the child.
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She sees those woods and hears those cries still.
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One could hear the cries of outrage from the likes of Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Thatcher.
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You don't have to get stuck into Sky to hear the cry Burn Hollywood Burn.
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He heard the cry of its dissolution, saw the blood run away from itself on the floorboards below.
let
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Then she lay down, still with her shoes on, and let herself cry .
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She let out a cry of rage.
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The Beech Naiad let out a last cry of desolation, and fell to the floor.
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As Martinez slid backwards on the tin we all let out our own cries of terror.
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He must let her cry herself out.
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They let off a battle cry .
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He knew the sensible thing to do was to remain silent and let her cry away.
raise
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He had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick, and to raise the hue and cry upon them.
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They lined up and looked down into the new place and then, weapons waving, raised a battle cry .
rally
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If you are truly loyal to Ulster then rally behind the cry for independence.
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That was the rallying cry of Nelson Mandela's finely crafted speech.
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It has been a radical rallying cry ever since Lenin laid it down as doctrine.
stifle
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She loved everything about this man, and when he took her she tried to stifle the cry of pain.
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Some one brusquely pulled the headscarf down over her face, stifling her cry , cutting off her vision.
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We were well aware of him stifling cries of pain, but there was nothing for it but to proceed.
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She bit her lower lip to stifle the cry in her throat and felt the goosepimples bristling across her skin.
utter
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The cat crouched uneasily in her arms, then uttered a curious low cry and struggled free.
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Finally he made a noise, and Maritza turned around, uttered a little cry of thanks, and took the tissue.
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Gilbert uttered a strangled cry and leapt to his feet with shadow reflections of crawling rain on his spectrally white face.
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She uttered a great cry which reached up to the gods.
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She put her hand to her mouth, uttered a mourning cry and ran through the swing door to her car.
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Suddenly Dad uttered a sharp cry and staggered backwards, slumping against the wall.
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When it arrived, they uttered a great cry of welcome.
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The whole earth uttered a great cry .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shoulder to cry on
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If you ever need a shoulder to cry on, just call me.
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Remember, I'm always here if you need a shoulder to cry on.
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In past years, Diana knew that Earl Spencer would be a shoulder to cry on and a loving counsellor.
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The researcher could share enthusiasms, be a shoulder to cry on and help brainstorm alternatives.
be a far cry from sth
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Europe was a far cry from what we'd been led to expect.
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Alternating child-care responsibility is a far cry from asking a woman to postpone her career to raise her children.
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But resistance is a far cry from immunity.
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It was a far cry from the modern chalet party.
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The 1995 national increase in costs is a far cry from the double-digit growth seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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The cinder-block surroundings, while not luxurious, are a far cry from the stripped-down wards of 1958 that greeted early volunteers.
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The classical design was a far cry from today's functional agricultural buildings.
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The plateau was a far cry from the workaday cottages by the harbour.
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The shop is a far cry from the modern boutique, and still has stock dating back for generations.
be in full cry
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.
cry on sb's shoulder
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At least she hadn't cried on his shoulder again.
cry/sing etc your heart out
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After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out.
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Anyway, then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out.
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For the first time since I cried my heart out in Puerto Rico - I was crying.
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March 7: I cried my heart out last night after seeing the movie High Tide.
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She cried her heart out, all because of an unruly trouble-making, black-hearted child who was ripping her apart.
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We would march along in step, doing eighty-eight paces to the minute, singing our hearts out.
crying need for sth
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There is a crying need for an international insolvency convention.
it's a crying shame
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It would be a crying shame if high ticket prices kept people away from baseball games.
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It's a crying shame to cover up your body.
laugh/cry hard
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Suddenly, he came inside crying hard .
not know whether to laugh or cry
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When the whole cake fell off the table, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
strangled cry/gasp/voice etc
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After a few thrusting minutes Edward gave a strangled cry that seemed to come from deep in his throat and jerked out of her.
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But Gary in his slow strangled voice spoke a kind of poetry as he told me about his previous life.
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Gilbert uttered a strangled cry and leapt to his feet with shadow reflections of crawling rain on his spectrally white face.
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He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions.
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Lorrimer gave a strangled cry and lunged out.
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Then a sixth man appeared at the door, a small strangled cry came from Miranda.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Land and liberty" was the rallying cry of revolutionary Mexico.
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As they left the stage there were cries of "More! More!"
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We heard a child's cries for help coming from the river.
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You'll feel better when you've had a good cry .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A distant cry can be heard issuing from a classroom.
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A far cry from the 40,000 they were promising.
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All at once I felt the ground moving under my feet, and cries issuing from it.
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From below there were the hoarse confused cries of the mob.
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It is a far cry from most people's idea of accountants at work.
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That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries, buses and the occasional taxi.