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What does a crying shame mean?
What does a crying shame mean?
Ex: But I'll tell you one thing
If you would leave it would be a crying shame
If you would leave it would be a crying shame
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@Juan_Welding
This is a really old expression, more than 100 years old. I think people still say it, however.
It's a poetic way of saying that an event is so devastating that it will make you cry.
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