come home by weeping cross

Etymology
From a common English placename indicating the former site of a stone cross.

Verb

 * 1)  To return in disappointment, or in a spirit of contrition.
 * 2) * 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.
 * This was a fine Rhodomontade, but it fail'd in the Execution: For, making an irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross.