shed crocodile tears , auch: cry crocodile tears , auch: weep crocodile tears

Curious, then, that the government in Reykjavik is now shedding crocodile tears.

This disgraceful resolution does not even shed crocodile tears over poverty or social exclusion.

But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts.

It is no good that Western leaders wring their hands and shed crocodile tears as the butchery continues.

We cannot shed crocodile tears on Thursdays over conflicts that are continually supplied by the legal or illegal trade in these arms.

She was crying, Melissa wasn't shedding crocodile tears.

Sitting across on the opposite benches it is the Labour Party who shed crocodile tears for the unemployed.

The Guardian is mistaken to shed crocodile tears for Mitt Romney.

Ah-gilak shed crocodile tears, but he did not fool the Mezops.

Mr. Wall sheds crocodile tears.

The irony is the breaker Cameron is the one who sheds crocodile tears over broken Britain.

I urge the supposedly responsible politicians who are shedding crocodile tears today to have a good think about this, this evening, before they go to bed.

"He kills his partner and now he's parading all over the newscanner channels shedding crocodile tears.

I would warn against shedding crocodile tears, as Mr Deß has done, and many others to a lesser extent.

They are always ready to shed crocodile tears for the camera on behalf of victims, but their real and deep sympathy is always for the criminal.'

For four decades, the international community has shed crocodile tears over the refugees' fate while blocking Israel's efforts to change their status by rehabilitating and resettling them.

(A cartoonist was once imprisoned for depicting him as a reptile, shedding crocodile tears as he strangled a dissident writer with his tail.)

Leaders of other republics mutter openly now about a new Russian imperialism, while former Communist chieftains shed crocodile tears over the violation of their "human rights."

Larry takes a Machivellian approach to management, even convincing Ted to shed crocodile tears over his potentially destitute family during a business dinner with a magazine editor.

When Kiran Bedi was named warden of India's largest and most notorious prison, a job considered a professional graveyard, many of her critics shed crocodile tears.

A few may be shedding crocodile tears today, but many lawmakers who have voted for campaign finance revisions in the past doubt that such legislation will really reform anything much for very long.

To the Sports Editor: I'm shedding crocodile tears for the discharged umpires who knowingly resigned, whose bluff was called, and who have to pay the price for their misguided strategy.

She heavily criticised Chen for shedding crocodile tears, saying that instead of calling to apologise, he had not returned calls and switched off his telephone when the incident came to light last year.

A crooked woman working for a Non Governmental Organization in the village, who witnessed the snatching of her virginity, decorated her neck with a golden chain shedding crocodiles tears.

The executives of the big companies will be hard put to it to shed crocodile tears for the plight of their beloved President and at the same time refrain from jumping for joy.