dry one's eyes

present singular third person dries one's eyes · participle present drying one's eyes · participle past dried one's eyes · past dried one's eyes

1. idiomaticTo cease crying.

   Dry your eyes mate I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts But you've got to walk away now, it's over

   2004, The Streets, “Dry Your Eyes”, in A Grand Don't Come for Free

   2 more examples

   "Be careful!" cried the green girl. "The tears will fall on your green silk gown and spot it." So Dorothy dried her eyes and said, "I suppose we must try it; but I am sure I do not want to kill anybody, even to see Aunt Em again."

   1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC

   These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath.

   1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 303