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bleeding heart
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a bleeding heart
someone who shows too much sympathy for everyone. The anti-hunting campaigners are just a bunch of bleeding hearts who don't understand the countryside.
See also: heart
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When I first read the essay, I expected Shilling to encounter high dudgeon, the opprobrium of the chattering classes or, at the very least, knee-jerk, bleeding-heart tirades in The New York Times.
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There may not be many occasions when so-called bleeding-heart liberals and business leaders preoccupied with the bottom line would join a united chorus expressing concern and outrage at social policy, but the Board of Supervisors recently opened the door to this rarity.
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