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water works noun- tears UK, 1647
- Him and his phony waterworks he could turn on and off. — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 20, 1957
- She turned on the waterworks to cop her license to do me in but I was immune to her tears. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 12, 1977
- Hey, kid, turn off the waterworks, okay? — Lethal Weapon, 1987
- Save the fucking waterworks. — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 299, 1997
- the urinary system US
- — American Speech, pp. 145–148, May 1961: “The spoken language of medicine; argot, slang, cant”
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