cry up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."
From Fox News ● Oct. 4, 2021
By 1968, it had become so much a part of the city’s culture that The Washington Post reported that a common cry up and down Wisconsin Avenue on Sundays was “How d’ya like your eggs?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2018
So long and loudly did he cry up that stock that when best-selling Jurgen appeared, it was dedicated to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It means sweating in a suit, watching Ma cry up close, and reciting that dumb grief script to everyone who asks, under threat of Ma’s heat vision.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Nay, nay; I will not have you depreciate her in order to cry up my wife.
From A Hungarian Nabob by R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
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