Our new idiom of the week is "crocodile tears."
This expression means that you shed false tears or show insincere sadness or grief. It has an interesting history as we learned in class today. In the 14th century, some people believed that crocodiles shed tears when they ate their prey, but we know today that it is not true. Crocodiles do, however, have tear ducts and "shed" tears, but not out of sorrow and sadness, but because their eyes get dry when they spend too much time out of the water!
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