"Cry me a river"? " I cried a river over you"? what do they mean?

Question

cry me a river , the beautiful jazz standard, but its difficult for me to understand these words ,

"cry me a river? " it is grammatical sentence?

" I cried a river over you" it means i shed tears like a river because of you?

Answer 1

pour your eyes out

Answer 2

It's a phrase, using old-fashioned word structure. To 'cry a river' means what you think - the tears flow so much that you could create a river, or fill a dry river-bed with their quantity. It is a poetic exaggeration. In modern usage one might say, "Cry a river for me."

It is often, but not always, sarcastic.

Answer 3

Cry me a river: to cry so much that u make a river out of your tears

Answer 4

Cry me a river": You can shed as many tears as you want, I don't care.

"I cried a river over you": I have shed so many tears because of you. Don't you care?

Answer 5

Cry me a river means they feel so bad for you (not), they want you to cry so much it flows like a river.
I cried a river over you, means they cried so much it turned into a river

Answer 6

cry me a river means i dont really care u can cry about it all you want i still dont really care and i cried a river over you is saying i cried because of you

Answer 7

"Cry me a river": You can shed as many tears as you want, I don't care.

"I cried a river over you": I have shed so many tears because of you. Don't you care?

Answer 8

I don't really understand you question but it goes
"Cry me a river, build me a bridge, get over it"

Answer 9

u cry so much ur tear forms a river

Answer 10

i think it means they cried so much it was the size of a river.

Answer 11

the saying goes...."Cry me a river, Build me a bridge, and get over it"...It means they dont care they hurt u or ur feelings...