weep with (something)

weep with (something)

To shed tears because of some very intense emotion. We all wept with joy to see our older brother again after four years in the army. The child wept with fear in the inky blackness of her grandmother's creaky old house.
See also: weep
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • weep buckets
  • wept
  • weep (one's) heart out
  • choked with emotion
  • choked by emotion
  • tremble with
  • tremble with (something)
  • be (all) choked up
  • almost lost it
  • beside oneself, to be