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weep into one's beer

weep into 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 into one's beer

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

Questions about weep into one's beer

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

Words near weep into one's beer in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weep into 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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