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What (who) is cry off - definition

FOLK SUPERGROUP

Cry Cry Cry (Cry Cry Cry album); Cry cry cry; Cry Cry Cry (band)

cry off

If you cry off, you tell someone that you cannot do something that you have agreed or arranged to do.

Barron invited her to the races and she agreed, but she caught flu and had to cry off at the last minute.

PHRASAL VERB: V P

cry off

informal go back on a promise or fail to keep to an arrangement.

battle cry

A YELL OR CHANT TAKEN UP IN BATTLE

Battlecry; War-cry; Battle Cry; Battle shout; War chant; War cry; War whoop

also battle-cry (battle cries)

1.

A battle cry is a phrase that is used to encourage people to support a particular cause or campaign.

Their battle-cry will be: 'Sign this petition before they sign away your country.'

= rallying cry

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2.

A battle cry is a shout that soldiers give as they go into battle.

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Wikipedia

Cry Cry Cry

Cry Cry Cry was a folk supergroup, consisting of Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, and Dar Williams. The band released a single eponymous album of cover songs on October 13, 1998.

The trio toured in 1999 to support the album. The tour was met with very favorable reviews.

Cry Cry Cry contributed one song to the folk-tribute album Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 60's, covering Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind". The three also joined together to cover Buddy and Julie Miller's "My Love Will Follow You" on Shindell's solo album, Somewhere Near Paterson, and to provide backing vocals for the song "Blue Shadows" on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's album (produced by Buddy Miller), "One Endless Night".

They performed on Sunday, June 18, 2017, at the Hudson River Clearwater Festival for their first show in 18 years, according to a comment at the show by Dar Williams.

In 2021, the band released a live recording on Bandcamp of their final shows from the 2018 reunion tour, recorded at The Freight and Salvage in Berkeley, CA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry Cry Cry

Examples of use of cry off

1. Everton’s Andrew Johnson is also likely to cry off for England, leaving coach Steve McClaren with only two strikers — Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe.

2. Tata Steel share prices dropped 10.66 per cent to Rs 464 prompting Tata group chairman Ratan Tata to comment it was a "harsh reaction". But not all small investors are willing to cry off the steel maker yet.