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Also, cry out for ; have a crying need for . Be in urgent need of, as in This wall cries for a second coat of paint , or This car is crying out for a good washing , or There is a crying need for order in this house . The figurative use of cry for , literally meaning 鈥渋mplore鈥� or 鈥渨eep for,鈥� dates from the late 1500s, as does the use of crying for 鈥渄emanding attention.鈥� The first variant, alluding to actually shouting out one's needs or desires, dates from the second half of the 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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