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weep in one's beer

weep in one's beer is the alternative form of cry in one's beer.

Meaning of cry in one's beer

Verb

cry in one's beer (third-person singular simple present cries in one's beer, present participle crying in one's beer, simple past and past participle cried in one's beer)

  1. (idiomatic) To feel sorry for oneself; to feel sadness or regret, especially in combination with self-pity.
    • It was a pleasure to talk to a movie producer who wasn't crying in his beer over what the European war has done to the picture business.1940 June 16, Frederick C. Othman, “Here's Film Director Who Says War Helps Business”, in St. Petersburg Times, US, retrieved 15 Jul 2011, page 21

Forms of weep in one's beer

third-person singular presentweeps in one's beer
present participleweeping in one's beer
past participlewept in one's beer
pastwept in one's beer

Questions about weep in one's beer

What is weep in one's beer the alternative form of?
Weep in one's beer is the alternative form of cry in one's beer.

Words near weep in one's beer in the dictionary

  1. weenyboppers
  2. weep
  3. weep buckets
  4. weep hole
  5. weep holes
  6. weep in one's beer
  7. weep into one's beer
  8. weep Irish
  9. weepable
  10. weepathon
  11. weepathons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weep in one's beer (page history and authors); cry in one's beer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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