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Waterworks (The)

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The shedding of tears. Many other meanings also.

“‘Oh, miss, I never thought to have seen this day,ʹ and the waterworks began to play.”—Thackeray.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Water-hole
Water-logged
Water-Poet
Water-sky (A)
Water Stock (To)
Water of Jealousy (The)
Water Tasting like Wine
Waters (Sanitary)
Waterloo Cup (The)
Waterworks (The)
Watling Street
Watteau
Wave
Wax-bond End (A)
Way-bit
Ways and Means
Wayfaring Tree (The)
Wayland
Wayland Smith’s Cave
Wayland Wood (near Watton, Norfolk)