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turn on the waterworks



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Idioms and Phrases

Start to weep, as in Whenever Dad refuses a request of hers she turns on the waterworks . This term implies that one begins to weep deliberately, as though switching on a system of pipes connected to reservoirs.

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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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