CROCODILE TEARS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Falsehood	Lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy; (bad faith); il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: CROCODILE TEARS

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Somebody get a bucket for my crocodile tears! Boo hoo! (Taina; writing credit: Fracaswell Hyman)
Lyrics	I don`t need no more crocodile tears (Don't Shed A Tear; performing artist: Paul Carrack)
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Commercial Usage: CROCODILE TEARS

Domain	Title
Books	Crocodile Tears (reference) Crocodile tears : (brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70:1971 "to photographically document the existence of everyone alive") (reference) Crocodile Tears and Lipstick Smears (reference) Panaman Hats Crocodile Tears and Other Com (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Crocodile Tears (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Expression: CROCODILE TEARS

Frequency of Internet Keywords: CROCODILE TEARS

Modern Translation: CROCODILE TEARS

Language		Translations for "CROCODILE TEARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lot krokodili. (various references)

Czech		krokodýlí slzy. (various references)

Danish		krokodilletåre-syndrom (crocodile tears syndrome). (various references)

French		larmes de crocodile. (various references)

German		Krokodilstränensyndrom (crocodile tears syndrome), Krokodilstränenphänomen (crocodile tears syndrome), Gustolakrimalreflex (crocodile tears syndrome), gustatorisches Weinen (crocodile tears syndrome), Bogorad-Syndrom (crocodile tears syndrome). (various references)

Greek		κροκοδίλια δάκρυα. (various references)

Italian		sindrome delle lacrime di coccodrillo (crocodile tears syndrome), lacrimazione parossistica (crocodile tears syndrome). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		空涙 , 嘘泣き . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そらなみ� , うそなき. (various references)

Manx		jeir vreagagh, jeir 'oalsey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ocodilecray earstay

Portuguese		choro fingido, lágrimas falsas, lágrimas de crocodilo. (various references)

Spanish		lágrimas de cocodrilo. (various references)

Turkish		sahte gözyaşları (false tears). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: CROCODILE TEARS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-o-o-r-r-s-t"
	-3 letters: codirectors, reaccredits.
	-4 letters: arterioles, cartelised, cloistered, cocreators, codirector, correlated, correlates, crocodiles, decaliters, decorators, desecrator, desiccator, reaccredit, retailored, tricolored.
	-5 letters: accorders, accredits, acrolects, aerolites, arteriole, careerist, carrioles, cartelise, celeriacs, coalesced, cocreated, cocreates, cocreator, codirects, coeditors, coleaders, colocated, colocates, coracoids, corelated, corelates, corrected, correlate, corrodies, costarred, creditors, creolised, creosoted, crocodile, crocoites, decaliter, declarers, decorates, decorator.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-o-o-r-r-s-t"
	+4 letters: electrocardiograms.
	+5 letters: electrocardiographs.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
crocodile tears	11
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Definition: CROCODILE TEARS

Expression using "CROCODILE TEARS": shed crocodile tears. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.