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weep buckets

Idioms  

  1. Cry copiously, as in That sad tale of unrequited love always made her weep buckets. [Colloquial]

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Like its predecessor, “Hello Beautiful” will make you weep buckets because you come to care so deeply about the characters and their fates.

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