When a person regrets something, it is not alwaysdoes it sincerely. For example, one was given a job, and the other was "flown by." Well, the first expresses sympathy to the second. An outside observer can say: "Well, all these are crocodile tears." The value of idiom we consider today.
History always comes to our rescue if wewe want to know the roots of a phrase. Our example is no exception. “Crocodile tears” (the meaning of the phraseological unit follows below) refers to a famous animal. When a crocodile is hungry, he is not himself. And if someone hits him, he bites off large pieces from the victim. Food puts pressure on the lacrimal glands, and the poor fellow cries, but not at all because he feels sorry for his lunch. The usual physiological reaction, "snack" should not take it personally, and, frankly speaking, it is not up to it.
With people harder than with animals.People also have a moral dimension to life. And not only do they want to achieve their goals, but they still want to seem better than they really are. When people talk about a person and mention “crocodile tears” (the meaning of a phraseological unit, announced a little earlier, hurries to the reader with all possible agility), they mean that the object does not really regret that its tears are not real, forced and fake. But again, in this case, a person is forced to cry not by a special device of the body, but by longing for moral integrity, which is unattainable in principle.
Any social competition, whether work orlearning implies winning and losing. So, there is a reason to shed some (or many) completely uncardiac tears. Imagine, some come to the coveted university, while others are left behind. In some, life makes a new round of evolution, while others remain uncertain for another year. Of course, the “winners” can express their condolences to the “losers”, but this is all a convention. The first got a place in the sun, and the second is not. And the last regret will not help. But they will definitely be back next year. It's time to figure out why, from a psychological point of view, you should not express false sympathy. The analysis of the stable phrase “crocodile tears” (the meaning of the idiom is already known) moves on.
Imagine a person cutting a hand or finger, andthe other fits and begins to rub salt into his wound. Approximately the same effect of sympathy, which is not asked. If a person loses a dream, a job or an opportunity to study in a prestigious university, then the last person he wants is the one who took his place.
Фальшивые соболезнования по поводу смерти stranger is also quite suitable to illustrate the expression "pouring crocodile tears." The value of idiom we examined above. After all, when death takes someone else for itself, we feel that we are the victors, and the departed - the losers. In addition, polite requires us to regret, for death is a common fate. And most importantly, condolences are meaningless in themselves. They do not even give a sense of support. Each person experiences a loss personally, himself, and no one can help him. On the contrary, insincere words only trample the wound.
And finally, a paradox.At the very beginning, we said that crocodile tears (the meaning of a phraseological unit is brief: insincere words of regret or support) are a dummy of feelings. But it also happens when the celebration is fleeting, and immediately followed by the loss of any meaning of life. But this is a complex wording, so we will explain with an example.
Everyone knows that the world of comics, action movies andsome thrillers are polar. There are good guys and bad. And the task of the good is to defeat the bad. Or, for example, in the film “Hannibal” the Lecturer has an opponent, Mason Vergere. M. Verger's brilliant and insane psychiatrist has disfigured, and now the victim wants revenge. In the book on which the film was shot, there is such a thought of Mason (we pass freely): “And what to do when the Lecturer dies? No, no, it's better not to think about it, now the main thing is revenge! ”
Paradox, but here the expression "crocodile tears" andsuitable, and not suitable at the same time. Mason will regret the death of Lecter if she happens, and his torment is completely sincere, no matter how it may seem from the outside. Together with the death of the doctor, the meaning of the life of the victim also disappears.
The same with superheroes.Yes, they are beautiful and wonderful, but what would Batman do without the Joker and other villains? Agree that Bruce Wayne will feel boredom without villains and will be able in this case to send all his money to charitable foundations, because improving weapons will be a meaningless exercise. And in general, life will become bland.
So, we have considered the expression “crocodile tears”: the meaning of the idiom, its origin and examples. We hope that it was interesting and not too gloomy.
