tear
blood, sweat, and tears: seeblood.
end in tears: seeend.
shed crocodile tears: seecrocodile.
tear your hair out act with or show extreme desperation. informal
1991Jill ChurchillA Farewell to Yarns Someplace people were having nervous breakdowns and tearing their hair out in a desperate effort to please Phyllis.
tear someone limb from limb: seelimb.
tear someone off a strip (or tear a strip off someone) rebuke someone angrily. informal
☞ This expression was originally RAF slang, first recorded in the 1940s.
tear someone or something to shreds (or pieces) criticize someone or something aggressively. informal
vale of tears: seevale.
wear and tear: seewear.
without tears (of a subject) presented so as to be learnt or achieved easily.
☞ The expression was first used in the titles of books by F. L. Mortimer, such as Reading without Tears (1857) and Latin without Tears (1877).
1991William FoxWilloughby's Phoney War [They] are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon. Skiing without tears, I hardly think.