криком кричать

• КРИКОМ <КРИЧМЯ> КРИЧАТЬ coll

[VP; subj: human; fixed WO (var. with криком)]

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⇒ to shout very loudly, as loudly as one can:

- X криком кричал{{}}≈ X shouted (yelled, screamed) at the top of his voice (lungs);

- X cried (shouted, screamed) his head off;

- X screamed his lungs out;

- X shouted for all he was worth.

     ♦ К довершению содома, кричал кричмя дворовый ребятишка, получивший от матери затрещину... (Гоголь 3). То make the uproar more complete, one of the house-serfs, a little boy who had been slapped by his mother, was screaming at the top of his voice... (3a).

     ♦ По вечерам, возвращаясь с поля, Михаил частенько слышит ликующие голоса своих братьев в сосняке за деревней, и хоть криком кричи - не зазовёшь домой (Абрамов 1). Returning from the field in the evenings, Mikhail would often hear the exultant voices of his brothers in the pine forest back of the village. And though he would shout for all he was worth, his shouts would not bring them home (1a).