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crocodile tears

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crocodile tears
crocodile said to weep after devouring prey. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 383; Mercatante, 9–10]
See : Hypocrisy

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CORRECTION: Those who look to the hero of Chappaquiddick for moral leadership and believe that he weeps crocodile tears for poverty-stricken minimum-wage workers might actually buy the bogus argument about how the federal government should order, by fiat, a major increase in hourly wages nationwide.
On the more than slightly out there tip comes the Mumps Crocodile Tears 7" on Sympathy for the Record Industry.
With a few crocodile tears welling up, the boy whined, "My hair is wet
 
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