cry up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, the chamber is targeting its advertising in areas less affected by road closures, like Portland, Ore., Boise, Idaho, and Spokane, Wash. As the storm passes and water recedes, there’s a rallying cry up and down the main drag: Leavenworth is open for business.
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 Literature
"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."
From Fox News
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
Saying he didn’t remember the accident itself, Morgan instantly began to cry up when he talked about McNair’s death, saying that “the case is settled, but the pain is always going to be there for Jimmy Mack… he was a loving man and he was a warm man. He was a good man.”
From Salon
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