cry up

"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."

The summary stated Adamson tried to defend the inquiry into the independent review and denied it was politically motivated, while Cheng said "no matter what excuses the Australian side has made, the fact can not be buried that the proposal is a political maneuver. Just as a western saying goes: Cry up wine and sell vinegar."

By 1968, it had become so much a part of the city’s culture that The Washington Post reported that a common cry up and down Wisconsin Avenue on Sundays was “How d’ya like your eggs?”

Saying he didn’t remember the accident itself, Morgan instantly began to cry up when he talked about McNair’s death, saying that “the case is settled, but the pain is always going to be there for Jimmy Mack… he was a loving man and he was a warm man. He was a good man.”

In loud voices, as though they were trying to outbellow the roar of the storm where the fishes were caught, they cry up the superior quality of the catch they are displaying for sale.