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not a dry eye in the house idiom used to mean that all the people at a particular place felt very emotional about what they had seen or heard and many of them were crying在场的人都被感动得落泪。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Weeping and crying bawl blubber boohoo break down bucket burst out laughing/cryingidiom close to tears eye-watering grizzle have a sookidiom lachrymose lachrymosely mewl tear something up tear-stained tear-streaked teardrop tearful tearfully waterworks
Great applause, and not a dry eye in the house, etc., etc. But there is not much room in a paper for speeches. The banker's clerk said there was not a dry eye in the house.
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