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cry one's eyes out

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  1. Also, cry one's heart out. Weep inconsolably. For example, Wendy was so homesick that she was crying her eyes out, or At funerals Ruth always cries her heart out. [c. 1700]

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Life was quite gloomy enough as it was, without going out of one's way to cry one's eyes out over sentimental plays.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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