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blink back tears

To try to stop oneself from crying. I often have to blink back tears when I listen to a sappy love song on the radio. The poor student was so nervous on stage that she was clearly blinking back tears.
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Hollie good show, Kelly
Her mother blinks back tears as she listens to her daughter speak at their home in Mountain Ash, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.
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Viewers will see the crowd jump to their feet while guest judge Kelly Brook blinks back tears and Amanda Holden, who was a wannabe child star herself, gushes: "It was like looking in the mirror."
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