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tear

(tɛr)

n. a wild drinking bout. (see also rip.) Sally is off on a tear again.

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• be bored to death
• blink tears back
• blood, sweat and tears
• blood, sweat, and tears
• bore (someone) to tears
• bore stiff
• bore to death
• bored silly
• bored to tears
• break out in tears and break in tears
• burst into
• burst into tears
• crocodile tears
• in tears
• It is easier to tear down than to build up
• It'll end in tears
• move to tears
• moved to tears
• not shed a tear
• on a tear
• pull hair out
• reduce to tears
• rip into
• rip off
• shed a tear
• shed crocodile tears
• tear
• tear a place apart
• tear a strip off (someone)
• tear across
• tear along
• tear apart
• tear around
• tear at
• tear at heartstrings
• tear away
• tear between
• tear down
• tear from
• tear hair
• tear heart out
• tear into
• tear into a place
• tear into some place
• tear into someone
• tear into something
• tear it
• tear limb from limb
• tear loose
• tear loose from someone/something
• tear off
• tear off a strip
• tear on
• tear one's hair
• tear out
• tear out of
• tear someone a new asshole
• tear someone a new one
• tear someone up
• tear someone/something apart
• tear someone/something up
• tear through
• tear to pieces
• tear up
• tear up the pea patch
• tear-jerker
• That does it!
• That tears it!
• vale of tears
• wear and tear