come home by weeping cross

== English == === Etymology === From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross. === Verb === come home by weeping cross (third-person singular simple present comes home by weeping cross, present participle coming home by weeping cross, simple past came home by weeping cross, past participle come home by weeping cross) (idiomatic, dated) To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition. 1744, Spanish Rhodomontades, Pierre de Bourdeille, tr. John Ozell. This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross.