| 释义 |
idiomthere wasn't a dry eye in the houseused in order to say that an event or statement made everyone feel very sad or sympathetic, often when you think that they were silly to be so strongly affected by it:There wasn't a dry eye in the house during the last twenty minutes of the film. The Minister's wife swore to the whole press conference that she would always stand by him, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
there wasn't a dry eye in the houseEveryone in attendance was crying. The term is typically used literally, but with exaggeration—some people may have been crying in the situation described, but usually not literally everyone. His final monologue was simply heartbreaking. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. there wasn't a dry eye in the house everyone in the audience of a film, play, speech, etc. was moved to tears. |