in tears

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in tears

crying Some employees were in tears as they said they were resigning.

Usage notes: often used in the form break down in tears (to begin crying): He broke down in tears when he learned that his father had died.

See also: tear

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Sister Pullet was in tears when the one-horse chaise stopped before Mrs. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context This done, she begged them in a kind of deep despair to drink; then laughed, then cried, then took a little sip herself, then laughed and cried again, and took a little more; and so, by degrees, the worthy lady went on, increasing in smiles and decreasing in tears, until at last she could not laugh enough at Miss Monflathers, who, from being an object of dire vexation, became one of sheer ridicule and absurdity. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context Penelope was moved still more deeply as she heard the indisputable proofs that Ulysses laid before her; and when she had again found relief in tears she said to him, "Stranger, I was already disposed to pity you, but henceforth you shall be honoured and made welcome in my house. The Odyssey by Homer View in context			in situ in small doses in so many words in some neck of the woods in some respects in some transaction for in spades in spare time in spite of in spitting distance in stead in step in step with in stitches in stock in stocking feet in storage in store in style in sum in summary in Sunday best in surgery in tandem in tatters in tears in terms of in that regard in the absence of in the act in the affirmative in the air in the altogether in the back of mind in the bag in the balance in the ballpark in the bargain in the best of health in the black in the blink of an eye in the blood in the boondocks in the bosom of in the buff in the bull pen in the business of in the cards in the care of in the case of in the catbird seat			in style in style In Substance Debt Defeasance In Substance Defeasance in substance is in sum in sum in sum in summary in Sunday best In sunder In suo quisque negotio hebetior est quam in alieno in support in support of in support of in surgery in suspense in sync in sync in synch in synch in tabulas referre In Tall Cotton in tandem in tandem in tandem in tandem In Tartiflette We Puke In Tartiflette We Trust in tatters in tears in tela in tempus In term in terms in terms in terms in terms in terms in terms of in terms of in terms of in terms of in terms of in terms of in terms of In Terms of Zone A In terrorem In terrorem clause In terrorem populi in that in that in that in that in that in that case in that connection in that connection in that connection in that connection in that connexion

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