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cry for

Also, cry out for; have a crying need for. Be in urgent need of, as in This wall cries for a second coat of paint, or This car is crying out for a good washing, or There is a crying need for order in this house. The figurative use of cry for, literally meaning “implore” or “weep for,” dates from the late 1500s, as does the use of crying for “demanding attention.” The first variant, alluding to actually shouting out one's needs or desires, dates from the second half of the 1800s.

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Shortly after Canada won the 4Nations, Canadian comedian Mike Meyers appropriated the hockey term "elbows up" as a rallying cry for Canadian sovereignty.

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"I cleaned and tidied the house completely, said goodbye to it, and cried for 15 minutes. Then we left Tehran," they said.

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“It’s not just fatigue — it’s an ineffable, system wide cry for help and I don’t know how long I can remain in this state,” Moriarty continues in her text to her mother.

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The report fed a rising cry for reform of the three-decade-old Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority that oversees contracting for the city’s and county’s homeless services.

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“It was inside, but it wasn’t around him. It was an inside desire that he didn’t have. It was like a cry for help: ‘I want this, I want this.’

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