weep buckets

weep buckets

To weep copiously; to cry intensely and for a long time. Everyone wept buckets during the funeral. What did you say to upset your brother? He's been weeping buckets upstairs for the last half hour!
See also: bucket, weep
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

weep buckets

Cry copiously, as in That sad tale of unrequited love always made her weep buckets. [Colloquial]
See also: bucket, weep
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • weep (one's) heart out
  • wept
  • weep with (something)
  • shed a tear
  • (one's) heart out
  • sob (oneself) to sleep
  • sob oneself to sleep
  • (do something) as if it's going out of style
  • sweat buckets
  • cry one's eyes out, to
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You see the characters through their ups and downs, live their small triumphs and everyday heartaches - get so much under their skins that when real tragedy strikes, you're ready to weep buckets.
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Just buy their self-titled album and its sweet melancholia will be making you weep buckets - yup, so much you could fill a swimming pool.
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For the Iraqi people I could weep buckets. Their agony looks like going on and on.
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It is a year ago tomorrow since we held our breath as the two girls disappeared, only to weep buckets when their bodies turned up.
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It is a grave indictment that this woman, who displayed no compassion for casualties thrown onto the unemployment scrapheap, should weep buckets when her own party made her redundant.
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Ann said: "I will weep buckets when we leave, but it is time to go and for someone else to enjoy the house.
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