1. It's no good worrying about that now because the damage is done and it's no good crying over spilled

2. It really is a crying .......... that after all that money has been spent, the project is now being abandoned.

3. As a child she would burst into tears at every problem and so she soon got known as a regular .......... at school.

4. It really was a large and spacious garden but it cried out .......... something colourful to be planted.

5. We had great hopes of being able to invite the distinguished writer to our meeting but he cried .......... at the last moment.

6. For crying out .......... how many times do I have to tell you how to work that machine?

7. I'm all in favour of ambition but I think when he says he'll be a millionaire by the time he's 25, he's simply crying for the .......... .

8. The trouble is that he's cried .......... so often that now he's in real trouble, nobody believes him.

9. George is now 70 and he reckons that working conditions for the average office clerk today are a .......... cry from when he first started work.

10. There was a noisy crowd of about a dozen people in .......... cry chasing after the child who'd stolen an apple from the fruit market.