cry into your beer

cry into (one's) beer

To be emotional or unhappy about something. Used humorously. If our home team loses the big game, my boyfriend will definitely be crying into his beer afterward.
See also: beer, cry
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cry into your beer

If someone cries into their beer, they are upset about something. Before a divorce you need endless discussions where you can cry into your beer while your best buddy pretends not to be bored. Note: People often use names of other drinks instead of beer. I remember her sitting on the side of the bed and crying into her cup of cocoa.
See also: beer, cry
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • as you do
  • and I don't play one on TV
  • 200
  • do not pass Go, do not collect $200
  • do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
  • "I see," said the blind man
  • there must be something in the water
  • are we having fun yet
  • Are we having fun yet?
  • believe it or not
References in periodicals archive
"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into." - Don Marquis
Quotes To Celebrate National Beer Day
This is the kind of music you can either cry into your beer to, or get up and dance to.
Campaign promises
THE American writer Don Marquis once declared: "Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."
British Guild of Beer Writers' Best Regional Writer; at the bar... nostalgia/pubs
IT'S enough to make you cry into your beer seeing all those bottles of Grolsch lying broken in the road.
Oops.. it's fallen off the back of a lorry; pounds 10 tee-email
Grayson said: "I was enormously disappointed not to be in the starting team but you can either cry into your beer or be professional about it and do your job to the best of your ability.
Rugby Union: Heineken Cup - Saints alive thanks to last-gasp Grayson; Northampton 31 Llanelli 28