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What (who) is crocodile tears - definition

SERIES OF SPY NOVELS BY BRITISH AUTHOR ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Alex Rider Character List; Scorpia (novel); Eagle Strike; Nile (Fictional Killer); Snakehead (Alex Rider); Snakehead (teen-novel); Snakehead (novel); Alexrider; Alex tim; Alex Rider: Secret Weapon; Alex Rider: Christmas at Gunpoint; Alex rider; Alex Rider series; List of organizations in Alex Rider; Crocodile Tears(novel); Crocodile Tears; Alex Rider: The Gadgets; Alligator Tears; Endurance Point (novel); Alex Rider: Incident in Nice; Alex Rider Series; Endurance Point (novel)); Yassen Gregorovich (Alex Rider Villain); Crocodile Tears (novel); Scorpia Rising (novel); Scorpia Rising; SCORPIA; Russian Roulette (novel); Never Say Die (novel); Nightshade (Horowitz novel); Secret Weapon (Anthony Horowitz novel)

crocodile tears

PHRASE

Weeping crocodile; Crocodile tear; Croc tear; Superficial sympathy

If someone is crying crocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.

The sight of George shedding crocodile tears made me sick.

N-PLURAL

crocodile tears

PHRASE

Weeping crocodile; Crocodile tear; Croc tear; Superficial sympathy

¦ plural noun tears or expressions of sorrow that are insincere.

Origin

C16: said to be so named from a belief that crocodiles wept while devouring or luring their prey.

crocodile tears

PHRASE

Weeping crocodile; Crocodile tear; Croc tear; Superficial sympathy

Affected tears, hypocritical sorrow, dissembled grief.

Wikipedia

Alex Rider

Alex Rider is a series of spy novels written by British author Anthony Horowitz. The novels revolve around a teenage spy named Alex Rider and is primarily aimed towards young adults. The series currently comprises thirteen novels, as well as six graphic novels, seven short stories, a supplementary book, and a TV series. In January 2022, Horowitz indicated that he hopes to start writing a fourteenth novel (titled Nightshade Revenge) later in 2022, and that it will be published in 2023.

The first novel, Stormbreaker, was released in the United Kingdom in the year 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer. Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States, but more recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex Rider

Examples of use of crocodile tears

1. Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) said through his crocodile tears.

2. And still the politicos wring their hands in anguish and shed their crocodile tears.

3. Under these circumstances, we don‘t need the crocodile tears shed last week in Vilnius.

4. The Left parties were only ‘shedding crocodile tears‘ on the issue, he said.

5. As regards the British Council in Russia, we are all shedding crocodile tears.