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not a dry eye

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not a dry eye (in the house)

everyone is crying or feels strong emotion. When he sang the beautiful old Austrian folksong, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Etymology: based on a special meaning of the house (= the people attending a performance in a theater)

See also: dry, eye

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What happier women might have thought of his sermon I cannot say; there was not a dry eye among us at the Refuge. The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie View in context More results

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