burst into tears

burst into tears

It is a Chinese idiom, pronounced D à f à NGB à sh à ng, which means to cry aloud. I'm very sad.

source

Chapter 114 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "Baochai came up to her, and when she saw that Sister Feng had stopped her bed, she let out her sad voice."

Examples

"It's just my God!" she cried He said in a sad voice. (Chapter 89 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty)

words whose meaning is similar

Cry out

antonym

be jubilant

English translation

burstintotears

Idiom information

Common degree: general emotion color: commendatory words, grammatical usage: as predicate and object; idiom structure: verb object type, generation time: modern times