英语词汇cry one-s eyes out的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	cry one-s eyes out
词源	cry one’s eyes out. To cry long and uncontrollably, as if one’s eyes would flood out of their sockets. Cervantes may have coined this expression, which is first recorded in Don Quixote (1604). There Sancho begs his master not to make him witness the Don’s acts of penance: “Good sir, as you love me, don’t let me stay to see you naked; ‘twill grieve me so to the heart that I shall cry my eyes out.”
随便看	theophrastus the other half the peacemaker the peg the pen is mightier than the sword the penny drops the perfect word the peter principle the philippines the pits the plot thickens the popgun plot the powers that be the queen the quip modest the race is not to the swift the rat the cat and lovell the dog therblig there ain’t no horse that can’t be rode / there ain’t no man that can’t be throwed there are no atheists in foxholes there but for the grace of god goes god there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game

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