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tears before bedtime. Something bad or unpleasant. Primarily heard in UK. There will certainly be tears before bedtime if the government doesn't address the crisis proactively. Your lies will end in tears before bedtime if you're not careful, pal.
What does the saying 'Tears before bedtime' mean? Idiom: Tears before bedtime. Meaning: This idiom is used when something seems certain to go wrong or cause trouble. Country: British English | Subject Area: Body and bodily functions | Usage Type: Both or All Words Used. Contributor: Richard Flynn.
Decoding 'Tears Before Bedtime': Unraveling English Phrases • Join us on a journey to unravel the meaning behind the intriguing English phrase 'Tears Before ...
- Tear Up / Well Up
- Cry Your Eyes Out
- Laugh Til You Cry
- It’Ll All End in Tears
- Moved to Tears
- Cry An Ocean
- Reduced to Tears
- Cry Crocodile Tears
- Have A Lump in Your Throat
- Hold Back The Tears
To tear up or well upis to begin getting tears in your eyes, but not actually begin crying (yet). Note that this idiom for crying could refer to tears of sadness or of happiness. You can find more sadness idiomsin our separate article.
To cry your eyes out is to cry very hard and for a long time. It’s one of many idioms about eyeswe have in English.
Here is one of the few positive idioms about crying. Have you ever laughed so much that you shed a few tears? That’s what it means to laugh til you cry. You can read some more laugh idiomshere, as an antidote to all this talk of crying.
We use the saying it’ll all end in tearswhen we believe a particular situation will not end well, or any happiness will be short-lived. A variation on this that you might hear used to talk about children specifically is there’ll be tears before bedtime.
Someone is moved to tearswhen they experience such strong emotions that they want to cry. Again, this idiom for crying could refer to tears caused by sadness or happiness.
Perhaps you can already guess that cry an oceanis another expression for crying a lot. Find some more idioms about the oceanhere.
To reduce someone to tearsis to cause them to cry. Unlike moved to tears, reduced to tearsis always used in a negative sense. It could be frustration, sadness, insults, etc. which cause the person to cry. Both of these crying idioms are commonly used in the passive voice.
Crocodile tearsare just pretend tears, so not a sign of actual sadness. Check out more idioms with animals here (including another idiom for crying, cry wolf).
Before you actually start crying, you may have the feeling of a lump in your throat. This expression describes the physical sensation of constriction in the throat, caused by emotion. Perhaps this is not technically an idiom about crying, since it is literal rather than figurative, but it’s still a good English expression to know.
When you want to try and stop yourself from crying, you have to hold back or fight back the tears. We hope these idioms about crying will be useful. If you can think of any more, please add a comment below to share them! And, after all this talk of crying, perhaps some idioms about happinesswould brighten things up.
Tears Before Bedtime definition: Harm or damage before a matter is concluded.
Oct 2, 2004 · Tears before Bedtime. Posted by TheFallen on October 02, 2004. In Reply to: Tears before Bedtime posted by Word Camel on October 02, 2004. : This is a fairly common phrase in the UK. It's a portend of crisis to come.
