"LEPIDUS: What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?MARK ANTONY: It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.LEPIDUS: What colour is it of?MARK ANTONY: Of its own colour too.LEPIDUS: ’Tis a strange serpent.MARK ANTONY: ’Tis so, and the tears of it are wet."
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II, 7
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Crocodile tears
Crocodile tears, or superficial sympathy, is a false, insincere display of emotion such as a hypocrite crying fake tears of grief. The phrase derives from an ancient belief that crocodiles shed tears while consuming their prey, and as such is present in many modern languages, especially in Europe where it was introduced through Latin. While crocodiles do have tear ducts, they weep to lubricate their eyes, typically when they have been out of water for a long time and their eyes begin to dry out.
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