Idiom: Cry your eyes out
Poor Billy! He’s crying his eyes out because his ice cream fell on the floor.
Meaning
Idiom: cry your eyes out (cry one's eyes out)
- to cry very hard or in an uncontrolled way
- to cry for a long time
Examples
— When John’s wife left him, he cried his eyes out for two weeks straight.
— Sarah cries her eyes out every time she sees a sad movie.
— “I can’t talk now,” Ellen said to her friend. “My daughter is crying her eyes out because she failed her exam.”
— When I tried to break up with my boyfriend he started to cry his eyes out and I was shocked because I didn't know how much he loved me.
— Get down please. You'll be crying your eyes out if you fall off that table.
— Every single person in the audience cried their eyes out listening to the young girl describe her battle with brain cancer.
— I cried my eyes out the day Michael Jackson died. I'm grateful his music lives on.
— My whole family cried out eyes out after our house burned down.
— Please don't cry your eyes out. It's going to be better soon.
— Every time we have a discussion about her performance, my assistant cries her eyes out and I'm getting really tired of this behavior.
— Everyone in the theater cried their eyes out when the protagonist died at the end of the film.
— I wasn't crying my eyes out. I was just cutting onions.
— Do you think the HR director got fired? He was crying his eyes out after he left the Executive Director's office.
Synonyms
- cry/sob one's heart out
- in a flood of tears
- drown in tears
- dissolve in tears
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