there was not a dry eye in the house

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there was not a dry eye in the house

everyone in the audience of a film, play and speech was moved to tears.


RELATED IDIOMS :


come up dry

be unsuccessful - North American

1988 - James Trefil - The Dark Side of the Universe - Attempts to see this decay with extremely sensitive experiments have so far come up dry.




dry as dust

extremely dry

extremely dull

This is represented in the fictitious character of the antiquarian Dr. Jonas Dryasdust to whom Sir Walter Scott addressed the prefatory epistle of Ivanhoe and some other novels.

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