Cat crying mouse: pinyin [mā o k ū l m: o sh ǔ]
Source: Hao's "Popular Slang Dialogue": "Ducks are happy when they see bran, and cats cry and mice are crocodile tears."
meaning
Cats catch mice and eat mice. Rats are food for cats. How can a cat cry when a mouse is dead? This must be false. In fact, the cat can eat the mouse easily when it sees that it is dead, and it is too late to be happy. How can it cry? This idiom is used to describe pretending to be compassionate and sympathetic. Therefore, this idiom is usually combined with the word "false compassion" to describe pretending sympathy and compassion when seeing others in trouble.
example sentence
1, you are really crocodile tears.
2. Hao's "Popular slang": "Ducks are happy when they see bran, and cats cry and mice are hypocritical."
3. Mao Dun's Our Literary World: "Aesthetists hold high the banner of the supremacy of art, and humanitarians shout for cats and mice."
4. Niu Hao's deception: "What do you think of Song's" Two Saints "? Crying until the third night, what did you say? " ! What loyalty temple is built outside the noon gate? He is a crying cat and a mouse pretending to be sad! "