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Job's tears   /dʒɑbz tɛrz/   Listen
noun
Job  n.  The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man.
Job's comforter.
(a)
A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes.
(b)
A boil. (Colloq.)
Job's news, bad news.
Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.





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