crying game

Meanings

1. A situation where someone cries in a spiteful, self-indulgent, or attention-seeking manner.

1. A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.

Etymology

From the 1992 film The Crying Game, which features a scene in which a man discovers that his lover, implicitly presented up to that point as a cis woman, is in fact a pre-op/non-op trans woman.