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Idioms and Phrases

An unfortunate situation, as in It's a crying shame that Bob can't find a job . This term may well come from the now obsolete to cry shame upon , meaning “express vigorous disapproval or censure,” current from about 1600 to the mid-1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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