a shoulder to cry on

Meaning

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   used to describe a person who listens to your problems and gives you sympathy

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In the movies · 1

• Anything you need tour guide Iunch date shoulder to cry onTwilight2008
• We ask for strength, a shoulder to cry on...Don't Worry Darling2022
• just lean on my shoulder and you can cry into my full thick beard 199465742How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World2019
• You know, he's provided with an auditor Whose shoulder he can cry on, But he's also provided withGoing Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief2015
• Move over, laddie Make room for Daddy Got a whole new shoulder to cry on Take a chance now Give it a spin You've had chums for pallin' around with But you never had a friend like him Put your checkered past behind you now No more living on the run Face the big, bright beautiful future - Together - Together As father and sonAladdin and the King of Thieves1996

From the same entry

• be looking over your shoulder
• on shoulders
• put your shoulder to the wheel
• shoulder to shoulder
• have a chip on your shoulder
• give the cold shoulder
• be head and shoulders above
• have a good head on your shoulders
• an old head on young shoulders
• rub shoulders with
• straight from the shoulder

More idioms

• a thorn in flesh
• a walk of life
• be a tall order
• be in a jam
• be lost for words
• be out like a light
• be your own worst enemy
• beat to the punch
• beyond wildest dreams
• blow the whistle on
• climb on the bandwagon
• get off the hook