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Muse – Crying Shame Lyrics 18 years ago
Heh, "Crying shame" must be an idiom, it's a way of saying something's a really great shame, but I think it sounds quite ironic in this song myself. Shame as in disappointment, I'm pretty sure.

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Muse – Crying Shame Lyrics 18 years ago
Yep, "A Crying Shame" is a slightly ironic idiom in English that refers to a disappointment which is considered bad enough to provoke crying!

It's usually used these days in sarcasm, to imply that whatever the speaker is referring to isn't actually a shame at all.

E.G. "Busted split up!"
"Oh, what a crying shame."

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